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Expressions and Basic Operations, a la Shmoop. Petey the Pelican Poet

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Flew high above the sea The fish below didn't know it

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But dinner it was going to be Petey soared 200 feet above sea level

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The fish swam 30 feet below Petey swooped down, that sneaky devil

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And snatched that fish up. Whoa!

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Now we have a question, if you please What's the total distance from sky to seas?

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Here are your options. Petey's got his mouth full, so they don't

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rhyme. We're going to spit this out while Petey's

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dining on Charlie Tuna over there.

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So, first he has to descend two hundred feet to get to sea level...

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Then he has to go another thirty feet below sea level to grab the fish. We hope he took

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a deep breath first.

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Even though it's thirty feet below sea level, you don't want to subtract it from two hundred.

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You'll add the two distances together. Two hundred plus thirty equals 230.

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So Petey's glad he took a dip, he thinks his poetry is really hip,

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and he's no longer hungry after his dip under the sea...

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Oh yeah, the answer... it was B.

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