Question

An Airplane is 2500ft above the rim of the Grand Canyon at a point where the Grand Canyon is 1500ft deep.How high is the plane above the floor of the canyon?

Answer 1

The plane is 4,000 ft above the floor of the Grand Canyon

Explanation:

Here, we are interested in knowing how high is the plane from the floor of the Grand Canyon.

Mathematically, what we are to do here is to add distances.

The height of the plane is 2500 ft, while the floor of the Canyon at that point we are considering is 1500 ft deep into the ground.

Thus, the height of the plane above the Canyon floor at this point will be 2500 ft + 1500 ft = 4000 ft

So the plane is 4,000 ft above the floor of the Grand Canyon