Question

You are scuba diving. You are at a depth of 13 meters below sea level and travel down to 67 meters below sea level. What integer represents how many meters you dove?

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Responses

54 meters
54 meters

-54 meters
-54 meters

80 meters
80 meters

-80 meters

Answer 1

To find out how many meters you dove, you can subtract your starting depth from your ending depth.

Starting depth = -13 meters (since 13 meters below sea level is represented as -13)
Ending depth = -67 meters

Now, calculate the difference:

\(-67 - (-13) = -67 + 13 = -54\)

This means you dove 54 meters deeper; however, since we're looking for how many meters you dove (not including the negative sign), the answer is:

54 meters.