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A crow was perched atop a 14 1/2 foot tree and dives down 5 feet to a branch below. How far above the ground is the bird's new location in inches?

User Mateusz Jablonski
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We have the following:

In this case to know the new location we must subtract the original location and the change, thus


14(1)/(2)-5=9(1)/(2)

That is, the new location is 9 1/2 feet, but we need in inches, therefore we change the feet to inches knowing that 1 foot is 12 inches


9(1)/(2)ft\cdot(12in)/(1ft)=114

That is, the new location is 114 inches

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