Question

The depth of a river at flood stage is marked as "O" on a tall pole in the middle of a riverbank. The pole is marked in 1-foot intervals above

and below 0 to show the current depth of the water.

Drag a value and a word to the blanks to complete the sentence.

When the water level is at the "-4" mark on the pole, the river is

feet

the flood stage.

Answer 1

When the water level is at the "-4" mark on the pole, the river is 4 feet below the flood stage.

Explanation:

Given

`Flood\ stage = 0`

Required

What does -4 represents

From the question, we can deduce that:

`Above = +ve\ intervals`

`Below = -ve\ intervals`

-4 belongs to the "below" category.

Hence, -4 mark represents 4 feet below the flood stage