SOLUTION: how do you find the slope of a patio that is 15feet and 3inches please? can you actually break it down for me and write it out for me to fully understand?

Question 442717: how do you find the slope of a patio that is 15feet and 3inches please? can you actually break it down for me and write it out for me to fully understand?

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The way to think of it is: If a patio loses 3 inches of height
for every 15 feet of its length, what is its slope?
Slope is defined as:
(change in y) / (change in x)
These changes have to be in the same units, so
feet * inches/foot = inches
change in y = inches
change in x = inches
(change in y) / (change in x) =

The slope is 1/60

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