Question

A turtle is 6 feet below the surface of the sea. If his position can be recorded as −6 feet, what would the position of 0 represent?

Answer 1

the sea level

Explanation:

i can draw a picture

0-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------sea lvl

-1-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1ft below

-2----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2ft below

-3----------------------------------------------------------------------------3ft below

-4-------------------------------------------------------------------4ft below

-5-------------------------------------------------------------------------------5ft below

-6---------------------------------------------o-m----------------------------------6 ft below

^

thats a turtle

Answer 2

Since he is 6 feet below sea level, we could equate the word “below” as meaning a negative level.

Thus, 0 would be known as sea level