Question

Francine recorded today's high

temperature as 78.6°F. Today's low
temperature was 4.7°F less than
that. How much cooler was today's
low temperature than yesterdays low
temperature, which was 77.4°F?

Answer 1

3.5

Explanation:

the problem says 4.7 less than which refers to subtraction so we can plug our numbers into a subtraction problem like so

78.6-4.7 which equals 73.9

the second part of the problem asks the difference between yesterday's low and today's.

we can take the two lows and subtraction them to find this answer.

77.4-73.9 which equals 3.5

so today's low was 3.5 degrees cooler than yesturdays