Mr. Marsh tells his class that he is thinking of two numbers and wants his students to guess the numbers. He gives them the following hints. The two numbers have a sum of zero. The two numbers have a distance of 2.5 units between them on the number line.

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Answer:

1.25 and - 1.25

Step-by-step explanation:

additive inverses: a number and its opposite have a sum of 0

x and y are opposite number, one positive and another negative

distance = 2.5 with midpoint "0"

x = 2.5/2 = 1.25

y = -1.25