Question

suppose there is a 1.7 degree F drop in temperature for every thousand feet that an airplane climbs into the sky. If the temperature on the ground is 46.4 degrees F, what will be the temperature when the plane reaches an altitude of 6,000ft?

Answer 1

36.2 °F

Explanation:

The plane has climbed 6 thousand feet, so the temperature will have dropped 1.7 °F for each of those thousand feet:

temperature drop = 1.7 °F × 6 = 10.2 °F

Then the temperature at altitude is ...

46.4 °F -10.2 °F = 36.2 °F