SOLUTION: Determine Slope. A man decends 1800 feet of elevation @ 3.25 miles horizontally away from the top of the mountain. What is the slope of decent

Question 37320: Determine Slope. A man decends 1800 feet of elevation @ 3.25 miles horizontally away from the top of the mountain. What is the slope of decent
Answer by hydromojo(20) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Draw a right angled triangle with the right angle to the left (i did it this way, no rule that you should too -just for this explanation)
then, your hypotenuse = 3.25miles
your height is 1800 ft
3.25miles = 3.25*1.6 Km = 3.25*1.6*1000m = 3.25*1.6*1000*3.3ft = 17,160 feet
The tangent of the base acute angle =
i dont have a calculator handy to do this, but you're one step from the answer.
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