Question

When you were playing the integer game the first two cards that were selected were -8 and -10. What is the value in your hand?

Write an equation to justify your answer

what is the distance of the sum from -8

Answer 1

The value in your hand is -18

let the value be x, then the equation is:

x = -8 + (-10)

x = - 8 - 10

x = - 10

the distance of the sum from -8 is the distance between -8 & -10, i.e -8 - (-10) = 2.