Tom’s first carry of a football game resulted in a 5 yard loss his next carry was 12 1/2 if he finished the game with 3 carries for 26 yards how far was the third carry

18.5 yards

Step-by-step explanation:

Tom's first carry was -5 yards and his second was +12.5 yards. If we know he finished with 26 yards we can make a simple equation to try and find the distance of his third carry. We let the letter be a variable that represents the distance of his third carry.

This means his first carry + second carry + third carry = carry total

We can simply the left hand side

Now we move the 7.5 to the right side by subtracting it.

So Tom's third carry was for 18.5 yards!

Hope this helps!

0.85 or 85%

step-by-step explanation:

1) divide 23 by 27

2) round the decimal to the nearest 10

3) so your answer would be 0.85 or 85%

both equations and proportions are better.