Question

The bottom floor of a parking garage is an elevation of -36 feet. The top floor is 124 feet higher. What is the elevation of the top floor?

Answer 1

Answer: 88 feet.

Step-by-step explanation: For this problem, to find the elevation of the top floor we will simply subtract 36 feet from 124 feet, or we could add -36 feet to 124 feet.

124 + (-36) Is like subtracting 124 - 36.

So, 124 + (-36) = 88

This means that the elevation of the top floor is 88 feet.