Question

Pacific salmon swimming up the Columbia River travel 2 feet under water. Suppose one salmon darts 3 feet up and out of the water. Write and solve an addition sentence that shows how far out of the water the salmon jumped.

a) 2 + 3
b) 3 - 2
c) 2 * 3
d) 3 / 2

Answer 1

The salmon jumped 5 feet out of the water.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how far out of the water the salmon jumped, we can use the addition sentence 2 + 3. Since the salmon was swimming 2 feet under water and jumped 3 feet up, we can add these two distances together to find the total distance. Calculating 2 + 3 gives us a sum of 5 feet, so the salmon jumped 5 feet out of the water.