Question

The elevation of a sunken ship is -120 feet. Your Elevation is 5/8 of the ship's elevation. What is your elevation?

Answer 1

U would multiply 5/8 and -120/1 and you should get -600/8 but u have to make it into a mixed number which would be 75.

Answer 2

Answer: $-75\text{ feet}$

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : The elevation of a sunken ship is -120 feet.

Also, Your Elevation is $\dfrac{5}{8}$ of the ship's elevation.

Then by using the MULTIPLICATION OPERATION, your elevation will be given by :-

$\dfrac{5}{8}\times -120\text{ feet}=-75\text{ feet}$

Hence, your elevation is $-75\text{ feet}$