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document.write( "Driving down a mountain, Tom finds that he has descended 1800 ft<BR>\n" );
document.write( "in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "mountain. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the<BR>\n" );
document.write( "mountain. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "One of the definitions of slope is \"Rise over Run\"<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since he is driving down the mountain is would be considered a negative rise<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The rise = -1800 ft and the run (horizontal) = 3.25 mi<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We want them to be in the same units, change 3.25 mi to ft<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5280 * 3.25 = 17160 ft<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Slope = <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=-1800%2F17160 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"-1800%2F17160\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" > = -.104895 ~ -.10 to the nearest hundredth </SPAN>\n" );
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