Patrick starts hiking at an elevation of 418 feet. He descends to an elevation of 387 feet and then ascends to an elevation 94 feet higher than where he began. He then descended 132 feet. What is the elevation of where he stops hiking?

1 Answer
Mar 18, 2018

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

First, you can ignore the #387# feet descent. It provides no useful information to this problem.

He ascent leaves Patrick at an elevation of:

#418" feet " + 94" feet" = 512" feet"#

The second descent leaves leaves Patrick at an elevation of:

#512" feet " - 132" feet " = 380" feet"#