Answer
Please see the work below.
Work Step by Step
We know that
(a) $U=mg\Delta y$
We plug in the known values to obtain:
$U=(70)(9.8)(1900-0.0)=1.3MJ$
(b) $U=mg\Delta y$
We plug in the known values to obtain:
$U=(70)(9.8)(0.0-86)=-59KJ$