a shark at -80 feet. it swims up and jumps out of the water to a height of 15 feet. write a subtraction expression for the vertical distance the shark travels.
To write a subtraction expression for the vertical distance the shark travels, we need to find the difference between the height it jumps out of the water (15 feet) and the depth it was at initially (-80 feet).
The subtraction expression can be written as:
15 feet - (-80 feet)
To simplify this expression, we can rewrite the subtraction of a negative value as addition:
15 feet + 80 feet
This simplified expression gives us the vertical distance the shark travels as it jumps out of the water, which is 95 feet.