Question

a wheelchair ramp at a certain campus is designed so that every vertical rise of 1 foot is accompanied by a horizontal run of 13 feet. What is the grade of such a ramp? round answer to nearest tenth of percent.

Answer 1

I got 1/13 = 0.07 = 7% is this right?

Answer 2

or is it 0.10= 10%

Answer 3

rise/run = grade. that sounds right to me. but it rounds to .08

Answer 4

tenth, got it.

Answer 5

Yeah i meant to say 8 thanks lol

Answer 6

if you round the .0769 to the nearset tenth, it is .10 as you stated.

Answer 7

thanks

Answer 8

sure, good luck.