SOLUTION: A commercial jet liner hits an air pocket and drops 250 feet. After climbing 105 feet, it drops another 168 feet. What is its overall vertical change?
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Question 985392: A commercial jet liner hits an air pocket and drops 250 feet. After climbing 105 feet, it drops another 168 feet. What is its overall vertical change?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
-250 feet+105-168=
The total minus is -418
The total plus is 105
It went down -313 feet.
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Or, -250+105=-145
-145-168= -313 feet.
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