On a play, a football team lost 8 yards. They then lost another 5 yards and then another 6 yards. Write an integer subtraction equation to represent this situation. Find the diffe-
rence and explain what it means in context of the problem.

For a read-a-thon, jay and odhràn each started reading a book at the same time and continued reading for several hours. jay's book had 278 pages, and he read 55 pages per hour. odhràn's book had 238 pages, and he read 45 pages per hour. after how many hours did they have the same number of pages left, and how many pages were left?

Find the area of a parallelogram with the given vertices. p(-2, -5), q(9, -5), r(1, 5), s(12, 5)

Mr. brettler is hanging up a 5-foot tall rectangular welcome sign in the gym. he has drawn a sketch on a coordinate grid. he has the lower vertices of the sign at (9, –3) and (–6, –3). where would the upper vertices be on the grid?