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To Find: The final temperature of an item after initially freezing it to a negative temperature and then increasing its temperature by an amount.
Answer to Problem 12E
The final temperature is
Explanation of Solution
Given Information: The initial temperature is
Method:
- The final temperature is obtained by finding the sum of the initial temperature and the amount of increase in temperature.
- To find the sum of two numbers with opposite signs, subtract the smaller number from the larger number and put the sign of the larger number before the answer.
To find the sum of
Therefore, the final temperature of the item is
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