An elevator is on the twentieth floor. It goes down 11 floors and then up 5 floors. What floor is the elevator on now? [Remember negative floors are basement levels or below ground level]

Answer 1

Diagrams, even though they are rough sketches and not to scale, are very helpful !!,

Floor

12 START

11 Down 1

10 Down 2

9 Down 3

8 Down 4

7 Down 5

6 Down 6

5 Down 7

5 Down 8

3 Down 9

2 Down 19

1 Down 11

Note that the first floor is ground level' there is no Floor 0.

Now, take it back up five floors (is this easy, or what?)

Answer 2

20 - 11 + 5 = 14

fourteenth floor.