SOLUTION: Driving down a moutain, Tom finds that he has descended 1800 ft. in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi. horizontally away from the top of the mountain. Find the slope of his desce
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Question 42134: Driving down a moutain, Tom finds that he has descended 1800 ft. in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi. horizontally away from the top of the mountain. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundreth. Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Slope is rise over run.
His rise is a negative -1800 feet (he went downward).
His run is 3.25 miles which equals 3.25 x 5280 feet.
This is 17160 feet.
Thus slope m = -1800 / 17160 = -.10489 or
-.10 to the nearest hundredth
