SOLUTION: Please help me solve this equation: when driving up a certain hill, you rise 15 feet for every 1000 feet you drive forward. What is the slope of the road?
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Question 674444: Please help me solve this equation: when driving up a certain hill, you rise 15 feet for every 1000 feet you drive forward. What is the slope of the road?
Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
Slope is rise over run so in this one we have:
15/1000
simplified:
3/200
Make sense?
RJ
www.math-unlock.com
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