A football team loses 5 yards on one play and then loses 8 yards on the next play. Write an addition expression that represents the change in position of the team for the two plays. Then find the sum.

-5 + -8 = ___

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To write an addition expression that represents the change in position of the team for the two plays, we need to add the yardage gained or lost on each play.

The football team lost 5 yards on the first play and then lost 8 yards on the next play. To represent this, we can write the addition expression as:

-5 + (-8)

Now, to find the sum, we simply add the two values:

-5 + (-8) = -13

Therefore, the sum of the change in position for the two plays is -13 yards.