An elevator starts at the top floor of an office building, which is 37.8 meters above the ground. it travels to the parking garage 12.3 meters underground. how many meters did the elevator travel?

Andy wants to find the distance d across a river. he located points as shown in the figure, then use similar triangles to find that d = 223.5 feet. how can you tell without calculating that he must be wrong? tell what you think he did wrong and correct his error. round your answer to the nearest tenth if necessary. andy must have used the wrong . the distance d is actually feet.