Question

The height of each story in a hotel is 11 1/2 feet. The height is measured from the ceiling to the floor. The hotel has 2 underground levels that are used as banquet halls. Stephen is a waiter who works two levels below ground. At what elevation are Stephen’s feet? Assume the ground level of the hotel is at 0 feet.

Answer 1

-23 feet is the elevation of his feet being that each floor is 11.5 feet and that he is 2 story under ground, but I'm not sure because it doesn't tell u how much space is in between each ceiling and floor but from what u said the answer is -23 feet

Answer 2

Stephen is at -23 feet below the ground level.

Explanation:

Height of each story in a hotel is given as
`11(1)/(2)` feet or 11.5 feet.

Hotel has 2 underground levels having same height of each level.

Total height of underground levels = 2 × 11.5 = 23 feet

Since ground level of the hotel is assumed to be at 0 feet.

Below this level all elevations will be with negative notation.

Therefore, Stephen will be working at the elevation = 0 - 23 = -23 feet