SOLUTION: Driving down a mountain, Tom finds that he has descended 1800 ft in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the mountain. Find the slope of his descen
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Question 85818: Driving down a mountain, Tom finds that he has descended 1800 ft in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the mountain. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth.
Answer by checkley75(3666) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
USING GRAPHIC TECHNIQUES WE HAVE 2 POINTS (0,1800) & (3.25*5280,0)
THESLOPE BETWEEN THESE 2 POINTS ARE:
(Y2-Y1)/(X2-X1)
(0-1800)/(18480-0)
-1800/18480=.0974 OR ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST 100TH WE GET .10
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