y hiked up a mountain to 2,523 meters above sea level. Pete is a scuba diver and dove 319 meters below sea level. If Ty and Pete started at the same elevation, how much higher was Ty than Pete when they were the farthest apart?
Ty was 2,523 meters above sea level and Pete was 319 meters below sea level, so the total distance between them was 2,523 + 319 = 2,842 meters.
Therefore, Ty was 2,842 meters higher than Pete when they were the farthest apart.