on the first play of a game , a football team gained 23 yards and then lost 10 yards due to penalty during the second play the t
eam gained 8 yards, on the third and fourth play the team lost 11 yards in each play? how many yards in total did the tram gain or lose during the four plays?
-1 Let's say the set of downs starts at the 20 yard line (maybe the kicking team kicked deep, the receiving team took a knee and so play starts at the 20). Ok - we're at the 20. First down - they advance 5 yards. So we're now at the 25. We can write that mathematically as: 20 + 5 = 25 So the second play they get sacked deep and lose 6 yards. So we subtract 6: 25 − 6 = 19 So what's the change in yardage for the 2 plays? We are on the 19 and started at the 20, so we can write: 19 − 20 = − 1 and this makes sense because we know we advanced 5 and fell back 6
