SOLUTION: A small airplane at an altitude of 5000 feet is flying East at 300 feet per second, and you are watching it with a small telescope as it passes directly overhead. Refer to the fi
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Question 1142051: A small airplane at an altitude of 5000 feet is flying East at 300 feet per second, and you are watching it with a small telescope as it passes directly overhead. Refer to the figure above.
Round off your answers to two decimal places.
A. What is the slope of the telescope 5, 10, and 20 seconds after the plane passes overhead?
Answer: a. at 10 sec, slope = _____ at 20 sec, slope = 0.____
B.What is the slope of the telescope t seconds after the plane passes overhead?
b. slope at t seconds = Answer______/t Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A diagram could be drawn from the description.
You already have this yourself so you can simply label the parts.
Time in seconds after pass overhead,
Vertical leg, 5000 feet
Horizontal leg, feet
Hypotenuse, h
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