Question

A building has 17 floors of offices above ground and 5 floors below ground. Kaylea parks on the 4th floor below ground and has an office on the 15th floor. The ground floor is zero. How many floors must she go up from her car to her office?

Answer 1

19 floors

Explanation:

Let us consider the ground floor as 0 and the floors above it as positive and the floors below the ground floor as negative.

So, the floor in which she parked is -4 and the floor where her office is at +15.

The number of floors she has to climb is the absolute value of the difference of the two floors.

The number of floors she has to go up is
`|-4-15|=19`.