SOLUTION: Taking an elevator from level 2 to level 5 of a building. Describe the translation.

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Question 1136082: Taking an elevator from level 2 to level 5 of a building. Describe the translation.
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, ikleyn:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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I would take the stairs.

Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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            The translation is   "3 levels up". 


It is so if to consider "you" as the moving object and to consider the rest of the building as an unmoving media.



But if to consider "YOU" as the "unmoving observer", then the rest of the building is translated "3 level down"

including the Earth.

Everybody and everything is relative, do you know . . .