Question

a moving conveyor is built to rise 1 ,meter for each 3 meters of horizontal change.
a. find the slope of the conveyor
b.suppose the conveyor runs between two floors in a factory.find the length of the conveyor if the vertical distance between floors is 10 feet.

Answer 1

Hint:

a)

slope = rise/run

Answer 2

for part b), you use the slope you found to find the horizontal distance

then you use both the vertical and horizontal distances to find the length of the conveyor