Question

You start hiking at an elevation that is 80 meters below base camp.

You increase your elevation by 42 meters. What is the new elevation


with respect to base camp?

Answer 1

You are now 38 m below base camp.

Explanation:

Consider the provided information.

You start hiking at an elevation that is 80 meters below base camp.

Now your initial location is 80 m below base camp, that can be represents as: -80

Now you increase your elevation by 42.

So you go up by 42.

In other words, you get the equation -80+42 = -38.

Since a negative value is below the base camp, this means that you are now 38 m below base camp.