Okay so in order to figure this out you have to realize that height (distance) cannot be negative. So all you do is add 282 feet from the mountain and 282 from the valley to get 564ft in the difference of elevations
Because the total count went up 2 for one more batch of cookies, you know that 1C(ookies) = 2 eggs 3C = 6 eggs 15 - 6 = 9 eggs 3B(rownies) = 9 eggs 1B = 3 eggs