SOLUTION: driving through the mountains dale has to go up and over a high mountain pass the road has a constant incline for 7 3/4 miles to the top of the pass dale notices from a road sign t

Question 879364: driving through the mountains dale has to go up and over a high mountain pass the road has a constant incline for 7 3/4 miles to the top of the pass dale notices from a road sign that in the first mile he climbs 840 feet how much feet does he climb in all
Answer by josgarithmetic(39625) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The 840 foot climb is part of a triangle with hypotenuse 1 mile. Try to do everything in feet, because the question asks for feet. A proportion will work.

1 mile = 5280 feet.

, ratios of the climb to the road distance.
The conversion factor is not really needed.

, easier, because now this relates climb in feet to road distance in miles.
feet.
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