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Driving down a mountain, 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. I need to find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth.
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Ashley This question is from textbook Beginning Algebra
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Hi Ashley,
Driving down a mountain, 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. I need to find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth.
Slope=
His "rise" is -1800 ft because he went down (descended) 1800 ft.
His "run"=3.25 mi
We need the units to match, there are 5280 ft in a mile, so his run is:3.25(5280)ft=17,160 ft.
Happy Calculating,Ashley!!!
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