Tom’s first carry of a football game resulted in a 5 yard loss his next carry was 12 1/2 if he finished the game with 3 carries for 26 yards how far was the third carry

18.5 yards

Step-by-step explanation:

Tom's first carry was -5 yards and his second was +12.5 yards. If we know he finished with 26 yards we can make a simple equation to try and find the distance of his third carry. We let the letter be a variable that represents the distance of his third carry.

This means his first carry + second carry + third carry = carry total

We can simply the left hand side

Now we move the 7.5 to the right side by subtracting it.

So Tom's third carry was for 18.5 yards!

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