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At noon, a submarine was located at 5 12 meters below

sea level. In the next hour, it descended to an elevation
of -10.4 meters. What was the distance between the
submarine's initial and final elevation?

User Mark Belli
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-512 is the answer because 512 is a negative solution in Integers math
User Russell Horwood
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