SOLUTION: A commerical jet liner hits an air pocket and drops 244 feet. After climbing 197 feet, it drops another 190 feet. What is its overall vertical change?.

Question 158163: A commerical jet liner hits an air pocket and drops 244 feet. After climbing 197 feet, it drops another 190 feet. What is its overall vertical change?.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since the jet "drops 244 feet", this means that we start at -244. Since it climbs 197 feet, simply add 197 to -244 to get . So after climbing 197 feet, the plane is still down 47 feet (from it's original height). Since it "drops another 190 feet", just subtract 190 from -47 to get

So after the height changes, the plane has dropped 237 feet overall.

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