SOLUTION: An airplane covered 20 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 34,000 feet. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth. [Hint:

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Question 58183: An airplane covered 20 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 34,000 feet. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth. [Hint: 1 mi = 5280 feet.]
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An airplane covered 20 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 34,000 feet. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth. [Hint: 1 mi = 5280 feet.]
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slope = -34000/5280 = -6.439
This means for every foot he goes forward he decends 6.39 ft.
Cheers,
stan H.