Question

A mountain climber on MT. Everest is at 29,035 ft above sea level . A stone at the bottom of th dead sea is at 1,349 below sea level. What is th difference in elevationbetween the mountain climber and the stone?

Answer 1

29035 is to the right of 0.
-1349 is to the left of 0.

so, the distance between them:

29035 - (-1349) = 29035+1349 = 30384