During a game of tug-of-war, your teacher states that your team's current position is -5 steps. what does this statement mean?

If you are talking about (-) negative and (+) positive that -5 (negative five) means that your -5 steps to the left. Because negative numbers are always to the left and positive numbers are always to the right.

-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1+ 2+ 3+ 4+ 5+

-5 is where you are.

the law of definite proportions states samples of a compound will always contain the same proportion of elements by mass. in other words, a given compound will always contain the same elements in the same proportions by mass.the law of multiple proportions states when two elements combine with each other to form more than one compound, then the weights of one element that combine with a fixed weight of the other are in a ratio of small whole numbers.

128/3reason being 5 and 1/3 = 16/316/3 • 2/3 = 32/31 and 1/3 = 4/3 32/3 • 4/3 this will equal 128/3