Question

A running back carries the ball five times. find his total yardage if the carries were 9,-2,-1,13, and 6 yards.

Answer 1

How would I even strat this?

Answer 2

add those numbers up

Answer 3

Oh okay.

Answer 4

It would be 25 right?

Answer 5

well this is sort of odd, do they want to know the total amount of space he ran, or just how many yards the team gets for his run.

Answer 6

The total yardage

Answer 7

then turn the negative numbers into positive numbers

Answer 8

are you doing absolute values in class?

Answer 9

No, I'm actually doing my final

Answer 10

I turned the negatives into positives and got 31

Answer 11

this is the total amount of space he went

Answer 12

Thank you.