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Pam's eye–level height is 256 feet above sea level and Adam's eye–level height is 400 feet above sea level. What expression shows how much farther Adam can see to the horizonIn simplest terms, Adam can see a√b feet farther than Pam.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Distance to the horizon ≈ √(2Rh) (R = Earth radius). With R = 3960 mi = 3960·5280 = 20,908,800 ft:

Difference = √(2R)(√400 − √256) = 4√(2R) = 4√(41,817,600)
= 10,560√6 feet.

So a = 10560, b = 6.