document.write( "Question 117485: A roof rises 7.25 ft over a horizontal distance of 13.71 ft. What is the slope of the roof to the nearest hundredth? \n" ); document.write( "
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The slope is defined as the vertical distance divided by the horizontal distance.
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\n" ); document.write( "For this problem you are told that the vertical rise is 7.25 feet, and you are also told
\n" ); document.write( "that the horizontal distance over which this rise takes place is 13.71 feet. So for this
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\n" ); document.write( "\"slope+=+7.25%2F13.71\"
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\n" ); document.write( "Using a calculator to divide 13.71 into 7.25 you get an answer of 0.528811086 and this slope rounds
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\n" ); document.write( "The answer has no dimension associated with it. It is just a decimal value.
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\n" ); document.write( "The answer you are looking for is just slope = 0.53
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\n" ); document.write( "Hope this helps you to understand the problem.
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\n" ); document.write( "And as added information, roofers and architects don't talk about what the decimal value
\n" ); document.write( "of a slope is. They generally talk in terms of how much the roof rises in a horizontal
\n" ); document.write( "distance of 12 inches. For this case the rise is .53 times 12 inches which is 6.36 inches.
\n" ); document.write( "So a roofer would say that the pitch (or slope) of the roof is 6.36 in 12.
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