Owen plots the numbers 4, –6, –8, and –3 on a horizontal number line. Which list shows the numbers in the order in which they would appear from left to right on the number line?

Numbers farther to the left on a number line are smaller. Among these numbers, –8 is the smallest, followed by –6, then –3, and finally 4. So the left-to-right order is –8, –6, –3, 4, which is choice A.

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