Question 79134: My question is: An airplane covered 22 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 33,000 feet. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth. (I know 1 mile =5280 feet)
Answer by ptaylor(2198)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Basically what we have is a right triangle with a height (opposite side) of 33,000 ft and a base (adjacant side) of 22 mi. YOU ARE RIGHT!!!!! We must either deal in miles or feet. So let's deal in feet:
22 mi=22*5280 ft =116,160 ft
Slope =tangent of included angle which equals opposite side divided by the adjacant side. So we have
Slope=TAN (theta)=33,000/116,160=0.28409=0.28
Hope this helps-----ptaylor
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