Adding positive and negative integers

Mitchell was fishing in a lake that has a bottom of -10 feet from the surface. He reels his line up 7 feet from the bottom. How far is Mitchell's line from the lake's surface?

What is the question above asking?

• Mitchell was fishing in a lake that has a bottom of -10 feet from the surface

• How far is Mitchell's line from the lake's surface?

• He reels his line up 7 feet from the bottom

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CCSS.6.NS.C.5

Mitchell was fishing in a lake that has a bottom of -10 feet from the surface. He reels his line up 7 feet from the bottom. How far is Mitchell's line from the lake's surface?

What are the important facts in the problem above?

• Mitchell was fishing

• the lake is -10 feet from the surface

• He reels the line up 7 feet from the bottom

• How far is Mitchell's line from the lake's surface?

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CCSS.7.NS.A.3

Mitchell was fishing in a lake that has a bottom of -10 feet from the surface. He reels his line up 7 feet from the bottom. How far is Mitchell's line from the lake's surface?

What equation should we use for the question above?

• -10 + 7=

• -10 - 7=

• 7 - (-10)=

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C

Mitchell was fishing in a lake that has a bottom of -10 feet from the surface. He reels his line up 7 feet from the bottom. How far is Mitchell's line from the lake's surface?

• -3 feet

• -17 feet

• 10 feet above the surface

• -4 feet

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C

Using a number line solve the equation: -4+7=

• -11

• 3

• -4

• 2

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1B

Using the number line solve the following equation: -3+(-5)=

• 2

• 5

• -7

• -8

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1B

Using a number line solve for the following equation: 8+(-10)=

(a)  

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1B

Solve the following equation: -2+(-3)

(a)  

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C

Solve the equation: |-5|+(-9)

(a)  

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CCSS.6.NS.C.7C

-12+ |-10|

(a)  

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CCSS.7.NS.A.1C