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ORDERING NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE NUMBERS

1. Here are the average temperatures during January for ten cities. The cities are listed alphabetically:

Cairns	29° C
Denver	-5.2° C
London	0.4° C
Melbourne	24.3° C
Moscow	-8.7° C
Paris	9.2° C
Prague	-2.8° C
San Francisco	15° C
Stockholm	-6.1° C
Toronto	-6.2° C

 

Re-write the list with the cities listed from lowest average temperature to highest average temperature.

City with the lowest temperature	The student has completed this column: Moscow -8.7° C
	Toronto -6.2° C
	Stockholm -6.1° C
	Denver -5.2° C
	Prague -2.8° C
	London -0.4° C
	Paris 9.2° C
	San Fransisco 15° C
	Melbourne 24.3° C
City with the highest temperature	Cairns 29° C

 

2. This table shows the changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for each quarter of a year for the last three years. (Each quarter has three months. For example, the March quarter has the months January, February and March. The CPI in the March quarter of 1998 was -0.33%).

	March	June	September	December
1997	+0.17	-0.25	-0.42	+0.25
1998	-0.33	+0.59	+0.83	+0.49
2008	+4.2	+4.5	+5.0	+3.7
2010	+0.9	+3.1	+2.8	+2.7

 Write a list that arranges the quarters from those with the lowest CPI to those with the highest.

	Quarter The student has completed this column:	Year The student has completed this column:
Lowest CPI	September	1997
	March	1998
	June	1997
	March	1997
	December	1997
	December	1998
	June	1998
	September	1998
	March	2010
	December	2010
	September	2010
	June	2010
	December	2008
	March	2008
	June	2008
Highest CPI	September	2008

 

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