Question

A bird is flying 17 feet above the water. It dives to 3 feet below the water's surface to catch a fish. Write and evaluate an expression to find the total distance that the bird dove

Answer 1

Given,

The body was lying 17 feet above the water and dives to 3 feet below the water surface.

To find,

an expression to calculate the total diving distance of that bird.

Solution,

We can simply solve this mathematical problem by using the following mathematical process.

Here the total diving distance will be the sum of height of flight of the bird at the initial stage and the diving distance from the water surface.

So,

Total diving distance = Height of flight + Diving depth

Numerical value,

Total diving distance = 17+3 = 20 feet

Hence, the expression will be [Total diving distance = Height of flight + Diving depth] and the numerical value of the total diving distance will be 20 feet.