Question

Write a situation in which positive and negative numbers are used to describe values that have opposite meaning. What does 0 represent in this situation you created?

Answer 1

I get on an elevator. I go up 3 floors. I go down 2 floors. Going up is positive, going down is negative, and staying on the same floor is 0.

Answer 2

Answer:

A fish is swimming in a pond 4.5 feet below the pond's top surface, while a falcon is flying in circles over the fish. Jimmy wants to know how many feet the falcon has to fly to reach the fish.

0 represents the pond's surface.