where would you find yourself using slope in the real world?

Question

could you name a few?

Answer 1

Coding Flash games, if that counts as the "real world..."

Answer 2

In the building of roads, the slope, or inclination, must be taken into account. If it is a road that goes across a mountain pass, for instance, it may have to gain a lot of altitude, but the slope can't be too large or else logging semis will have a very difficult time making it up. That's why you sometimes see signs that will say "x% grade for the next so many feet or miles."

Answer 3

you would probably use it mostly if you were into economics, business, or engineering. slope helps you find out how much stuff your company needs to make or buy, and it will help you decide how many people to employ. itll help you employ the right ammount of people, itll help you decide what people should be doing with their time, itll help you design products. i cant reely be specific, because slope isnt the number 1 tool you use, but if you dont know everything there is to know about slopes, you wont understand economics or engineering which are 2 skills that you can use to make alot of money in todays world.

Answer 4

Is the engineering field considered the "real world"? If so I use it all the time. If your into roof design you need to know how to calculate slopes to find the pitch of your roof.

Answer 5

A speedometer (speed is the slope of a position-vs-time graph)

Skiing, for obvious reasons

Anything involving rate of change is indicated by slope on a graph.

Answer 6

Well, in the business world- to find whether sales is growing at an increasing/decreasing rate. Same holds good for any parameter in science/engineering(temp changes, for eg) or Economics (currency depreciation, etc)

Answer 7

Skiing?

Answer 8

running a drain pipe,(plumbing)
finding the PITCH of a roof,(carpentry)
highway design (engineering)

Answer 9

Yeah really what is the point of teaching it. ive never used it

Answer 10

Aff!