Homework Help Forum: Math Word problem

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:12pm.

Can someone please help guide me with this one? I am not good at word problems I think I may be dislexic because sometimes I may add or misread a number incorrectly... Statistics. Beach Channel High School's football team scored one field goal (3pts) and gave up a touchdown (7pts) in the first quarter. In the third quarter, they scored another field goal and gave up a safety (2pts) They gave up a final field goal in the 4th quarter. By how much did they lose? I got 3 -7 + 2 - 2 - 2 = Is this correct or how would I begin to solve this question??

• Math Word problem - bobpursley, Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:15pm

  see other post.

  
  

• Math Word problem - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:16pm

  I did the problem this way. Beach scored 3 + 3 = 6 The opponents scorred 7 + 2 + 4 = 13 13 - 6 = ?

  
  

• Math Word problem - DrBob222, Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:18pm

  3    7 3    2     3 So they made 6 points and the other team made 12 points if I counted right. So they lost by 6 points.

  
  

• Math Word problem - Anonymous, Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:19pm

  thank you ms.sue that was a much simpler way to do it... I misread it or I am really dislexic because I tend to switch my numbers around...

  
  

• Math Word problem - Ms. Sue, Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 8:21pm

  The only problem with my answer is that I have a typo. The other team only had 12 points. The last field goal was 3, not 4 points.

  
  

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