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A dolphin jumped from 5 feet below the surface of the sea. Jane wrote −5 to represent the depth from which the dolphin jumped. What does 0 represent in this situation?

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it represents the surface of the sea

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0 represent the sea surface since the dolphin jumped from five feet below the sea surface and since Jane put that the dolphin jumped at -5 below the sea surface that would mean that 0 must represent the sea surface.
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