Laura's Car goes up a Slope |
1) Define Slope. Use ask.com or some other search engine or just explain it with your own understanding. The car needs to get to the top of a mountain. It cannot just rise up vertically because it will just fall. So it has to go up gradually - at a slope. The car goes at an angle up a mountain.
Alfredo and his family are going on a camping trip at the top of a mountain. The all piled into their SUV and packed up tents and food and equipment and cruised up the mountain.The SUV goes up a grade of 6%. It travels from an elevation of 0 to an elevation of 36 feet. How far did the car travel horizontally? 6% means it travels 6 feet up for every 100 feet horizontally. So it traveled 600 feet horizontally. |