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You get in an elevator and go down 8 floors. You exit on the 16th floor. Write and solve an equation to find what floor you got on the elevator.

User Tim Carr
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so floor that you started is x
go down 8 means -8
end on 16

so
x-8=16
add 8
x=24

started on 24
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