Justine and Meagan played a trivia game. Justine answered a question incorrectly and lost 7 points. Then Meagan answered correctly and got the opposite score. Which is the correct way to represent that “the opposite of Justine’s score was equal to Meagan’s score

, or in this case,

Step-by-step explanation:

Assuming that Justine's score is represented by and Meagan's score is represented by , we know that will always be the opposite of .

To represent opposite, we put a negative sign before the variable.

This makes the current number, even if it's negative, the opposite value.

Let's test it out.

Since Justine's score is -7, substituting it into the equation makes it  . We know that two negatives make a positive, so .

Now let's assume Justine's score is 7. Plugging it into the equation, we get . That's the same thing as , and -1 times 7 is -7.

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total of apples - take away four

6-4 = 2

answer is 2 apples