the lowest temperature ever recorded in the state of Oregon was -54 deg F. The state’s record high temperature
was 119 deg F. What is the historical temperature range in the state of Oregon?
please help me set this up.
thanks
Mary
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range means to subtract the largest from the smallest number.
so you would set it up
119 – -54
or
119+54
and that would equal
173
173 is the range!
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To get the range you need to get the absolute value of the DIFFERENCE between the two extreme temperatures:
|119 – (-54)| = 173
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