Does this situation represent a positive or negative number? 100 feet below sea level

StereoMatching asked Jan 7, 2022

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Does this situation represent a positive or negative number?

100 feet below sea level

StereoMatching asked Jan 7, 2022

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Negitive if you go up then it's positive. Let's say this is a number line.

The surface is obviously 0 and now you're going below the surface 100 feet that means you're going into the negitives.

Chris Mueller answered Jan 12, 2022

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