Order the numbers from least to greatest: -7, -3, 1, 6.

Order the numbers from least to greatest: -7, -3, 1, 6.

• A. -3, -7, 1, 6
• B. -7, -3, 1, 6
• C. -7, 1, -3, 6
• D. -7, -3, 6, 1

Answer: (C)

Ordering numbers from least to greatest means lining them up from the smallest value to the largest on the number line. Negative numbers work like this: the more negative a number is, the smaller it is. So -7 is left of -3, making -7 the smaller one. Any negative number is less than any positive number, so -3 is still smaller than 1. And 1 is smaller than 6 because 1 is a smaller positive value. Putting them in that order gives -7, -3, 1, 6. The sequence that matches this is -7, -3, 1, 6.

Ordering numbers from least to greatest means lining them up from the smallest value to the largest on the number line. Negative numbers work like this: the more negative a number is, the smaller it is. So -7 is left of -3, making -7 the smaller one. Any negative number is less than any positive number, so -3 is still smaller than 1. And 1 is smaller than 6 because 1 is a smaller positive value. Putting them in that order gives -7, -3, 1, 6. The sequence that matches this is -7, -3, 1, 6.