Kismet Kismet
  • 08-02-2025
  • Mathematics
High School

A school has 97 students. Twelve of those students moved away.

Karen simplified the expression 97 − 12 to find the number of students left at the school. Caleb solved it in a different way but found the correct answer. What expression did he use?

A. 97 + 12
B. 97 + (−12)
C. −97 + 12
D. −97 + (−12)

Answer :

briittanypaiige briittanypaiige
  • 10-12-2023
He would have had to use the expression,
97 + (-12)
This is because positive and a negative equal a negative.
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