A ski slope drops 40 feet for every horizontal 90 feet. Find the slope?
1 Answer
Mar 4, 2018
Explanation:
Verbally interpreted, the slope is "rise over run." More precisely, it's the vertical change divided by the horizontal change.
Here, we don't really have a "rise," but rather a descent of
Thus,
Note that since we're dropping and not rising, we label our vertical change of