Question

You sailed 0.055 units to the left and found treasure at 0.085 units find where the ship started

Answer 1

To find where the ship started, we can utilize the following formula:

Starting position = Treasure location + distance sailed to the left

Since we know going in the left direction typically is a means of subtraction, we can use inverse operations to solve this. We can set up an addition problem to solve this:

Starting position = 0.085 + 0.055
Starting position = 0.03 units

Therefore, the ship started at 0.03 units.