1. One winter night the temperature fell 15ºF between midnight and 5 a.m. By 9 A.M., the temperature had doubled from what it was at 5 A.M. By noon, it had risen another 10º to32ºF. What was the temperature at midnight?

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1.	One winter night the temperature fell 15ºF between midnight and 5 a.m. By 9 A.M., the temperature had doubled from what it was at 5 A.M. By noon, it had risen another 10º to32ºF.  What was the temperature at midnight?

anonymous · Answer

before it was 32 it was 22

anonymous · Answer

before that it must have been 11, and since that is a drop of 15 degrees it must have originally been 26

but only an idiot writes "temprature doubled"  
in no way is 22 degrees twice as hot as 11 degrees