Question

A piece of climbing equipment at a playground is 6 feet high and extends 4 feet horizontally. A piece of climbing equipment at a gym is 10 feet high and extends 6 feet horizontally. Which statement best compares the slopes of the two pieces of equipment?

Answer 1

Because5/3 >3/2 , the slope of the climbing equipment at the gym is greater.

Explanation:

if you couldnt understand her answer ^ here's mine

Answer 2

So what you do is divide the feet height by the feet horizontally.

So for the first at playground it is 6 divided by 4 which would give you 1.5 feet high for every feet horizontally.

The second is gym so 10 divided by 6 would give you 1.6 (repeating) feet high for every feet horizontally

Hope this helps :)

PS: sorry for my bad english (im from spain)