Question

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A large downtown hotel consists of twenty-four levels. Any level above ground is referred to as a" floor". There are twenty-two floors and each floor corresponds to its number on the number line (2 is second floor, 3 is third floor, etc...) and two underground levels reserved for underground parking. The first level below ground level is Parking A, and the second level below ground level is labeled Parking B.

Use the provided horizontal number line to help you answer the following questions.



If you start at Parking B and take the elevator to the fourteenth floor, how many levels have you gone up? [Type your answer as a number.]

Answer 1

16 levels

Explanation:

since there is 24 levels

and parking b is the lowest of the twenty-four

2(underground levels) + 14 ( floors)

= 16 levels

Answer 2

They went up 16 levels.

Explanation:

You can find that by finding the distance from -2 to 14.
To find the distance from two numbers,
`a` and
`b`, we can substitute both in the formula
`d = |b - a|`, where d is the distance between them.

`d = |14 - (-2)| \to |14 + 2|\to|16|\to16`