SOLUTION: When you are traveling in the mountains, you will often see signs about the grade of the road. If you are traveling downhill and you see a sign indicating that the road has a 7% g

Question 348357: When you are traveling in the mountains, you will often see signs about the grade of the road. If you are traveling downhill and you see a sign indicating that the road has a 7% grade, then the slope of the road is -7/100.
Suppose that you are driving downhill on a road with a 8% grade. If you have descended 750 feet, what is the change in your horizontal distance?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Suppose that you are driving downhill on a road with a 8% grade. If you have descended 750 feet, what is the change in your horizontal distance?
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h/750 = 100/8
h = 75000/8
horizontal distance = 9375 ft.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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