Question

On Tuesday,Fairbanks, Alaska had a temperature of -3 degrees and Sanford had a temperature of 42 degrees. What is the difference in the two temperatures?

Answer 1

45 degrees

Explanation:

42 degrees is 42 “points” away from zero (picture a number line). -3 degrees is 3 points away from zero on the number line, but in the opposite direction. The two numbers are 45 “points” away from each other.

When they say find the difference, it’s a subtraction equation.

42 - (-3) = 42 + 3 = 45