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Word Problems Involving Negative Numbers

The document presents a series of word problems focused on negative numbers, including calculations involving temperature changes and financial transactions. It includes exercises for determining values based on given conditions, such as temperature drops and bank account overdrafts. Additionally, it features a number line activity and a verification task regarding the midpoint of two numbers.

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Word Problems Involving Negative Numbers

The document presents a series of word problems focused on negative numbers, including calculations involving temperature changes and financial transactions. It includes exercises for determining values based on given conditions, such as temperature drops and bank account overdrafts. Additionally, it features a number line activity and a verification task regarding the midpoint of two numbers.

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Word Problems Involving Negative Numbers

1) Use the thermometer to help you calculate the answers.

a) 7 less than 5 is .

b) 11 more than -3 is . 20

c) The difference between -7 and 8 is .

2)

a) The temperature in Bristol is 3°C.

Overnight, the temperature falls by 7°C.

What is the temperature in the morning?

b) By lunchtime, the temperature has risen 9°C.

What is the temperature now?

3) A freezer is broken. The temperature inside the


freezer is -4°C. The engineer fixes the fault and
the temperature falls by 9°C. What is the temperature -20
inside the freezer now?
°C



4) Use the clues to mark the temperatures on the number line.

a) A: A negative number, 4 less than -10°C

B: A positive number, 16 more than A

C: A number 9 less than B

D: A positive number between C and B that isn’t a multiple of 2

E: A negative number, 10 less than D

°C

−15 −10 −5 0 5 10 15

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Word Problems Involving Negative Numbers
b) Write the temperatures in ascending order.

5) Felix has £36 in his bank account. His phone bill and broadband bill come out of this
account. Now, his account is overdrawn at -£25. If the phone bill was £23, how much was
the broadband bill? Show your working out in the box below.

6) Three children are playing a computer game. All players start with 40 points. Use the
clues to work out how many points each child has at the end of the game.

• Joseph loses 28 points, then loses another 15 points.

• Felix gains 27 points but then loses 16 points.

• Emily loses 36 points, then loses another 8 points.

Joseph Felix Emily

7) Felix and Emily are reading numbers from a scale.

Felix

−10 −5 0 5 10

Halfway between our


two numbers is -1.
Emily

Is Emily’s statement correct? Prove it!






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