Temp. In degrees is 19 degrees Fahrenheit. A blizzard moved in and brought lots of snow and lowered temp. By 27 degrees Fahrenheit, what was the final temp. In Fahrenheit during the blizzard?
This doesn't make any sense either. 19 degrees is colder than 27 degrees.
It lowered the temp by 27°, not to.
19 - 27 = -8
Oops! By starting a new sentence with "By," the meaning was changed.
Thanks for translating, Steve.
Yeah, I sometimes have to step back and ask myself what it would take for the problem to make sense.
It's not always possible to come up with an answer, either!
To find the final temperature during the blizzard, we need to subtract the decrease in temperature from the initial temperature.
The initial temperature is 19 degrees Fahrenheit, and the blizzard brought a decrease of 27 degrees Fahrenheit. To find the final temperature, we subtract the decrease from the initial temperature:
Final Temperature = Initial Temperature - Decrease
Final Temperature = 19°F - 27°F
To subtract these two temperatures, we need to borrow from the tens place since 7 is greater than 9.
1 0 (borrowed from tens place)
1 9
- 2 7
________
- 8
Since we cannot have negative temperatures in Fahrenheit, we conclude that the final temperature during the blizzard is -8 degrees Fahrenheit.