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What is the slope of a ski run that drops 5 feet for every horizontal change of 20 feet? write your answer in simplest form?
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What is the slope of a ski run that drops 5 feet for every horizontal change of 20 feet? write your answer in simplest form?

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The slope is rise over run. The ski run drops 5, so it would be -5, and the horizontal change of 20 would be the run, so you'd get -5 over 20 then you divide both by 5 and you get your answer of -1 over 4.
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