SOLUTION: Please help. A roof rises 4.25 ft over a horizontal distance of 17.15 ft. What is the slope of the roof to the nearest hundredth? Thanks JMS

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Question 112011: Please help.
A roof rises 4.25 ft over a horizontal distance of 17.15 ft.
What is the slope of the roof to the nearest hundredth?
Thanks
JMS
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Remember, the slope is simply the "rise" (ie the amount the line goes up/down) over the "run" (ie the amount the line goes horizontally to the right). So if the rise is 4.25 and the run is 17.15, then the slope is...

Slope=rise%2Frun=4.25%2F17.15=0.25 Here I simply divided 4.25/17.15 to get 0.247 which rounds to 0.25.

So the slope is m=0.25