SOLUTION: Driving down a mountain, Tom fins that he has descrended 1800 feet in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the mountain.Find the slope of his descr

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Question 43199: Driving down a mountain, Tom fins that he has descrended 1800 feet in elevation by the time he is 3.25 mi horizontally away from the top of the mountain.Find the slope of his descrent to the nearest hundredth.
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Did this one a couple of weeks ago, but anyway...
Slope = rise over run...so that the slope here is found by dividing
-1800 feet / 3.25 miles =
-1800 feet / 17160 feet =
-.10 to the nearest hundredth