Question

A football team looses 5 yards on each of 3 consecutive plays. Find the total change in yards

from where the team started. The total change is __ yards.

Answer 1

Multiply the number of plays by the number of yards lost in a play. But to "get it" you need to also know how many yards were lost in a play, which was not stated in the problem.

Explanation:

i.e 3*6=18 //////

so 5*3=15 incase