Question

A plane is flying at the height of 5000 m above the sea level. At a particular point, it is exactly above a submarine floating 1200 m below the sea level. What is the vertical distance between them?

Answer 1

Height of plane = $5000$ m

Depth of submarine =$-1200$ m

Distance between plane and submarine $=5000m-(-1200)m$

$=5000m+1200m=6200m$

Hence, vertical distance between plane and submarine is $6200$ m.