The diving board and mike’s pool is 3 feet above the water level mike stepped off the diving board and sink into his feet touch the bottom of the pool which is 12 feet deep how many feet did mike descend from the diving board to the bottom of the pool

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!