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Maths tricks trick 23: Below zero: money and temperature · Set 541 · 40 questions
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The trick (Cross zero): Warmer or more money: move up the number line. Colder or spending: move down. Crossing zero: count the steps to 0 first, then the steps left over. The gap between a number below zero and one above zero: add the two distances from 0.

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  1. 1.At night a hill town was −4 °C and a beach town was 29 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 33 (b) 43 (c) −33 (d) 25
  2. 2.A school club has ₹21 and pays a bill of ₹39. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) 18 (b) 60 (c) −18 (d) −8
  3. 3.A school club has ₹37 and pays a bill of ₹55. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) 18 (b) −18 (c) −8 (d) 92
  4. 4.In the morning it was −12 °C. It got 10 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) −2 (b) 22 (c) 8 (d) 2
  5. 5.At night a hill town was −4 °C and a beach town was 22 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) −26 (b) 36 (c) 26 (d) 18
  6. 6.At night a hill town was −4 °C and a beach town was 13 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 9 (b) 27 (c) 17 (d) −17
  7. 7.In the morning it was −9 °C. It got 13 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 4 (b) 22 (c) 14 (d) −4
  8. 8.In the morning it was −6 °C. It got 12 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) −6 (b) 16 (c) 6 (d) 18
  9. 9.A school club has ₹8 and pays a bill of ₹38. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) 46 (b) 30 (c) −30 (d) −20
  10. 10.At night a hill town was −9 °C and a beach town was 15 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 6 (b) 34 (c) 24 (d) −24
  11. 11.At night a hill town was −12 °C and a beach town was 14 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 36 (b) 2 (c) −26 (d) 26
  12. 12.A school club has ₹35 and pays a bill of ₹46. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) 81 (b) −1 (c) −11 (d) 11
  13. 13.A school club has ₹13 and pays a bill of ₹35. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) 48 (b) 22 (c) −22 (d) −12
  14. 14.In the morning it was −4 °C. It got 14 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 18 (b) 20 (c) 10 (d) −10
  15. 15.In the morning it was −7 °C. It got 18 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 21 (b) −11 (c) 25 (d) 11
  16. 16.In the morning it was −6 °C. It got 5 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 11 (b) 9 (c) 1 (d) −1
  17. 17.In the morning it was −6 °C. It got 4 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 8 (b) 10 (c) −2 (d) 2
  18. 18.In the morning it was −7 °C. It got 19 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 22 (b) 26 (c) −12 (d) 12
  19. 19.A school club has ₹10 and pays a bill of ₹44. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) −34 (b) 34 (c) 54 (d) −24
  20. 20.At night a hill town was −4 °C and a beach town was 8 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) −12 (b) 22 (c) 4 (d) 12
  21. 21.At night a hill town was −4 °C and a beach town was 15 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 11 (b) 19 (c) 29 (d) −19
  22. 22.At night a hill town was −2 °C and a beach town was 29 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 27 (b) 41 (c) 31 (d) −31
  23. 23.In the morning it was −11 °C. It got 4 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 15 (b) 3 (c) 7 (d) −7
  24. 24.At night a hill town was −12 °C and a beach town was 30 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 18 (b) 42 (c) −42 (d) 52
  25. 25.In the morning it was −3 °C. It got 20 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 23 (b) 27 (c) −17 (d) 17
  26. 26.In the morning it was −5 °C. It got 9 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) −4 (b) 14 (c) 4 (d) −6
  27. 27.A school club has ₹26 and pays a bill of ₹60. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) 34 (b) −24 (c) −34 (d) 86
  28. 28.In the morning it was −9 °C. It got 4 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 13 (b) −15 (c) −5 (d) 5
  29. 29.In the morning it was −1 °C. It got 14 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 13 (b) −13 (c) 23 (d) 15
  30. 30.At sunset it was −5 °C. By midnight it was 13 degrees colder. What was it at midnight (°C)? (a) 18 (b) −8 (c) −18 (d) 8
  31. 31.At night a hill town was −8 °C and a beach town was 33 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) −41 (b) 51 (c) 41 (d) 25
  32. 32.At night a hill town was −12 °C and a beach town was 7 °C. How many degrees warmer was the beach town? (a) 19 (b) −5 (c) −19 (d) 29
  33. 33.In the morning it was −4 °C. It got 7 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 13 (b) −3 (c) 3 (d) 11
  34. 34.At sunset it was 7 °C. By midnight it was 13 degrees colder. What was it at midnight (°C)? (a) 4 (b) 20 (c) 6 (d) −6
  35. 35.In the morning it was −5 °C. It got 7 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) −8 (b) 2 (c) 12 (d) −2
  36. 36.In the morning it was −11 °C. It got 16 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 5 (b) 15 (c) 27 (d) −5
  37. 37.In the morning it was −11 °C. It got 8 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) −3 (b) 7 (c) 19 (d) 3
  38. 38.In the morning it was −12 °C. It got 8 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) −4 (d) 20
  39. 39.In the morning it was −7 °C. It got 9 degrees warmer. What is the temperature now (°C)? (a) −2 (b) 16 (c) 12 (d) 2
  40. 40.A school club has ₹6 and pays a bill of ₹56. What is its balance now (₹)? (minus means it owes money) (a) 62 (b) −40 (c) 50 (d) −50

Answer key

  1. 33
  2. −18
  3. −18
  4. −2
  5. 26
  6. 17
  7. 4
  8. 6
  9. −30
  10. 24
  11. 26
  12. −11
  13. −22
  14. 10
  15. 11
  16. −1
  17. −2
  18. 12
  19. −34
  20. 12
  21. 19
  22. 31
  23. −7
  24. 42
  25. 17
  26. 4
  27. −34
  28. −5
  29. 13
  30. −18
  31. 41
  32. 19
  33. 3
  34. −6
  35. 2
  36. 5
  37. −3
  38. −4
  39. 2
  40. −50

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