SOLUTION: One more that I cannot get even with working on it for 2 days! an airplane covered 13 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 18,000 ft. Find the slope of the airplan

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Question 90598: One more that I cannot get even with working on it for 2 days!
an airplane covered 13 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 18,000 ft. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth. (Hint: 1 mi = 5280 Ft)
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Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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an airplane covered 13 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 18,000 ft. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth. (Hint: 1 mi = 5280 Ft)
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slope = vertical change/horizontal change
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slope = 18,000 ft/[13*5280 ft} = 0.2622...
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Cheers,
Stan H.

Answer by Earlsdon(6294) About Me  (Show Source):
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Recalling that slope is "rise over run", in this case, the "rise" (really a drop) is 18,000 ft. and the run is 13 miles or 68,640 ft.
The slope is:
m+=+18000%2F68640
m+=+0.26 Rounded to the nearest hundredth.