SOLUTION: if the pitch of a roof is 1/4, how many feet in the horizontal direction correspond to a rise in 3 feet? now i know the answer is 12 and i tried plugging the numbers into slope i

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Question 472680: if the pitch of a roof is 1/4, how many feet in the horizontal direction correspond to a rise in 3 feet?
now i know the answer is 12 and i tried plugging the numbers into slope intercept form and got negative 12 but didnt know eactly if that was the right way to do it or not....please help!!!! thank you

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Slope is rise/run

slope of 1/4 means: it rises 1 for every 4 it runs

1 rise / 4 run = 3 rise / x run {set up a proportion}
1(x) = 4(3) {cross-multiplied}
x = 12 {multiplied 1 by x and 4 by 3}

horizontal (run) = 12 ft

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