Question

Will someone please help me I posted this like and hour ago and closed it because no one replied :( help please
the halfway point of a tunnel through a mountain is 3/2 miles from either end of the tunnel.
the mountain is 660 feet (1/8 mile) high. Find the slope of. the side of the mountain

Answer 1

For this we use the Pythagorean theorem.

We have something like this.


we use \((\text{slope})^2=(\frac{3}{2})^2+(\frac{1}{8})^2\)

solving for slope we get

\(\text{slope}=\sqrt{(\frac{3}{2})^2+(\frac{1}{8})^2}\)