3. Plumbers deal with measurements in inches and common fractions of an inch, while surveyors use feet and decimal
fractions of a foot. Often one trade needs to interpret the measurements of the other.
(a) A drain has a run of 52 ft at a grade of 1/8 in./in. The high end of the drain has an elevation of 126.30 ft. What is the elevation at the low end?
(b) The elevation at one end of a lot is 84.12 ft, and the elevation at the other end is 94.67 ft. Express the difference in elevation in feet and inches and rounded to the nearest 1/8 in