Question

please help me with number eight it says find the slope of a mountain that descends100 meters for every horizontal distance of 1,000 meters

Answer 1

Given:

The mountain descends = 100 meters. that means it is getting vertically down.

So, it would be -100 meters.

Every horizontal distance is 1000 meters.

The slope is defined as,

$\begin{gathered} \text{Slope}=\frac{Change\text{ in vertical distance}}{\text{Change in horizontal distance}} \\ =\frac{-100}{1000} \\ =-\frac{1}{10} \end{gathered}$

Answer: the slope is -1/10 ( or -0.1 ).