Negative or anything with a negative sign means you lose or decrease an amount. If you said they lost -2 yards, then that would be a positive. It's like saying a "no" to a "no."
When a plane intersects both nappes of a double-napped cone but does not go through the vertex of the cone, the conic section that is formed by the intersection is a curve known as hyperbola. Therefore, the answer is: Hyperbola
