Question

Two buildings have the same total height. One building has 8 floors with height h. The other
building has a ground floor of 16 ft and 6 other floors with height h. Write and solve an equation
to find the height h of these floors.

Answer 1

Answer:

Let's make two equations: x will represent the height of each floor and h will be the total height.

Building #1:

8x=h

Building #2:

16+6x=h

We can combine these equations as:

8x=16+6x

Solve for x and we get:

2x=16 or

x=8

So now we know the height of the floors is:

8 feet