Question

A diving board is 15 feet above the water. A diver goes to a depth of 12 feet after jumping. What distance did the diver cover?

Answer 1

Answer:27 feet
15+12=27

Answer 2

The diver covered a distance of 27 ft.

Explanation:

Calculating Distance

Distance is a scalar property (does not consider direction) accounting for the total movement of a subject in length.

To calculate the distance covered by the diver, we solve for the total length that they've traveled.

15 ft + 12 ft = 27 ft

Therefore, the diver covered a distance of 27 ft.