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a mountain climber climb down the cliff 50 feet at a time. He did this four times in one day, what was the overall change in the elevation?

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The overall change in elevation can be determined as,


\begin{gathered} H=4*50\text{ ft} \\ =200\text{ ft} \end{gathered}

Thus, the required change in elevation is 200 ft.

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