SOLUTION: Driving down a mountain, Tom finds that he has decended 1800ftin elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the mountin. Find the slope of his descent to

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: Driving down a mountain, Tom finds that he has decended 1800ftin elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the mountin. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth.
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USING A GRAPH PLOT WE HAVE THE POINTS (0,1800) & (17160,0) [17,160 FEET =3.25 MILES] THUS THE SLOPE IS
(0-1800)/17160-0) OR -.104895 ROUNDED TO THE HEAREST HUNDRETHS WE HAVE -.1