Question

The elevation of a building's basement is -12 feet. Given the building is square shaped and the total length of the building from basement to roof is 62 feet, what is the elevation of the building above ground?

Answer 1

Picture it in your head
at -12 feet elevation (12 feet below ground level), the basement starts
62 feet from that level is the roof
so count 62 units up from -12 and get 50 feet above ground level (60-12=50)


answer is 50 feet above ground level