A football team has a net yardage of −32 1/3 yards on a series of plays. The team needs a net yardage of 30 yards to get a first down. How many yards do they have to get on their next play to get a first down?
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-32 1/3 + x = 30.
-96/3 + x = 30.
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To find out how many yards the team needs to gain on their next play to get a first down, we need to subtract the net yardage from the desired yardage.
The net yardage is given as -32 1/3 yards. To subtract this negative value, we can add the absolute value of the fraction to the whole number.
The absolute value of 1/3 is 1/3, and when added to -32, gives us:
-32 + 1/3 = -96/3 + 1/3 = -95/3
Now, we need to subtract the net yardage from the desired yardage of 30 yards:
30 - (-95/3)
To subtract a negative number, we can change it to addition and flip the sign:
30 + 95/3
To add the whole number and fraction, we need to get the same denominator:
(90/3) + (95/3) = 185/3
Therefore, the team needs to gain 185/3 yards on their next play to get a first down, which is approximately equal to 61 2/3 yards.
correction: -32 1/3 + x = 30
-97/3 + x = 30