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Grade 6·9 problems·~12 min·Common Core Math - Grade 6·standard·6-ns-c-5

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Concepts

A diving board is $5$ ft above the water, and a diver at the pool
bottom is $10$ ft below the water. What do these two numbers have
in common?

They are both measured from the same zero (the water surface), but in opposite directions

They are unrelated measurements with different starting points

One is a distance and the other is a direction

They can't both be true at the same time