SOLUTION: 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. Find the slope of his desc
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Question 67259: 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. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth Found 2 solutions by stanbon, funmath:Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 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. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth
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slope = [change in altitude]/[horizontal change]
=1800/[3.25*5280]
=1800/18480
=0.097
rounded to hundredth gives
=0.10
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Cheers,
Stan H.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 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. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth
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First either convert miles into feet or feet into miles.
There are 5280 ft in 1 mi, so:
Slope (m) is the change in the vertical direction over the change in the horizontal direction.
He is going down, so his vertical change is: -1800 ft
Horizontally, he has gone: 17160 ft
Happy Calculating!!!!
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