The temperature at noon was 10 degrees. For the next 3 hours it dropped at a rate of 3 degrees an hour. Express this change in temperature as an integer.

Change in temperature = -9 degrees

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Required

Change in temperature;

First, the total change in 3 hours has to be solved for. This is done as follows:

From the question, we understand that the temperature dropped.

So,  we can conclude that the temperature changed by -9 degrees;

This means that at the end of the third hour is temperature is 1 degrees

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