Question

A gold mine has two elevators, one for equipment and another for miners. The equipment elevator descends 6 feet per second. The elevator for the miners descends 16 feet per second. One day, the equipment elevator begins to descend. After 22 seconds, the elevator relative to the surface after another 17 seconds? At that time which elevator is deeper?

Answer 1

The mine and the elevator next to the water machine which makes the dirt wet so according to my calculations it 18 because of the numerator on the 6 degree.

Answer 2

It should the miners

Explanation:

Miners:

17(time) x 16 (feet per second) = 272(distance)

equipment

22 (time) x 6 (feet per second)= 132 (distance)