Question

You are playing a board game. All even numbers are positive, and all odd numbers are negative. A positive number indicates forward movement, and a negative indicates backward movement. During your last 10 turns, you have gone back 90 spaces. if you spun the same number each time which number did you spin?

Answer 1

Explanation:

• We khow that a positive number means going forward whereas a negative one means going bachward
• positive ⇒even negative⇒odd
• we moved 90 spaces back so we are dealing with a an odd number
• we played ten times

Let o be the number we spinned ten times :

• 90= 10 o
• 0= 90/10
• o=9

We spinned 9 ten times