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#1 Re: Help Me ! » HELP! Finding the slope in a word problem. » 2007-02-20 14:53:01

Thanks! I was doing the problem correctly, but .11 didn't seem like much of a slope to me either!

#2 Help Me ! » HELP! Finding the slope in a word problem. » 2007-02-20 14:07:22

fleetfilly
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I need to find the slope in the following problem.

Driving down a mountain, Tom descends 1800 ft in elevation by the time he is 3.25mi horizontally away from the top of the mountain. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundred.

Can I find the slope with only this information?   When I try to use the given info, I keep coming up with an undefined slope and that just doesn't sound right.  Can anyone please help??

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