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An airplane covered 15 miles of its route while decreasing its altitude by 20,000 feet. Find the slope of the airplane's line of descent. Round to the nearest hundredth. [Hint: 1 mi = 5280 feet.]

2006-09-17 10:02:55 · 3 answers · asked by suly m 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help

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distance=x
altitude=y
slope=y/x
x=15 x 5280
x=79200
y=20000
slope=20000/79200
slope=approximately .25

2006-09-17 10:09:45 · answer #1 · answered by afireinsideme [DF] 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋

viola got the math right the reduced fraction (exact answer) is 25/99

2006-09-17 17:27:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

do the math

2006-09-17 17:05:52 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Roberta. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋