Question

Represent the following on number line: -10

Answer 1

Hint: Draw a number line. A number line is a straight line with numbers placed at equal intervals or segments along its length. So, draw a straight line, mark origin as a reference point, take positive integer on rightward and negative integer on leftward. On number line mark origin as 0. Move 10 units leftward from origin. This point is -10 on the number line.

Complete step-by-step answer:
First, we have to draw a number line with reference point origin. Here we take zero as origin, so we move right and left with respect to origin.
As we move towards right, conventionally, we take positive signs and when we move towards left, we take negative signs.
So, marking positive and negative integers on a number line we can write right to the origin as positive integers and left to the origin as negative integers.





Now from origin we have to move ten equal steps leftward.






The point after ten equal steps leftward is -10.


NOTE: Number line is a line on which we draw a real number. It has origin as 0 as a reference point and as we move right, we take positive value conventionally and as we move left, we take negative value conventionally. On the number line the spacing between two consecutive numbers is equal. So, numbers are placed at equal intervals. The scale of interval is arbitrary and we take it as per our convenience.