Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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1. Integers
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Exercise 9 Page 347

Positive numbers are numbers that are greater than 0. These numbers can be written with or without a positive sign. Negative numbers are less than 0 and are always written with a negative sign.

78

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Positive numbers are numbers that are greater than 0. These numbers can be written with or without a positive sign. Negative numbers are less than 0 and are always written with a negative sign.
positive numbers
Integers are the set of whole numbers and their opposites. Let’s use this information to write a positive or negative integer that represents the given situation.

A baseball is thrown at a speed of 78 miles per hour.

The words thrown at a speed of tell us that the speed of a baseball is above certain level. This means that the speed of the baseball is increasing. We use positive numbers to express the enlargement of a number. 78