SOLUTION: On three consecutive passes, a football team gains 7 yards, loses 26 yards, and gains 40 yards. What number represents the total net yardage?

Question 187615: On three consecutive passes, a football team gains 7 yards, loses 26 yards, and gains 40 yards. What number represents the total net yardage?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since "a football team gains 7 yards", this means that they have +7 yards

Now because the team "loses 26 yards", this then means that have 26 yards taken away which is represented by -26. So we now have +7-26

In the end, the team "gains 40 yards" which is written +40. Add this to the last expression to get +7-26+40

So we now have the expression +7-26+40. Rearrange the terms to get +40+7-26. Add +40 and +7 to get +47.

So we now have +47-26

Subtract to get +21

So this means that they've gained 21 yards
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