Question

An airplane is flying at an altitude of 5,000 feet and starts descending at a rate of 150 feet per minute. What integer represents the airplane's change in altitude after 10 minutes?ps. this is a integer problem

Answer 1

Change of rate

We are given the initial altitude of an airplane of 5,000 feet and the rate of descending at 150 feet per minute.

This means every minute the airplane loses part of its initial altitude.

If the airplane descends 150 feet per minute, then after 10 minutes, it has descended 150 * 10 = 1,500 feet.

Since we are not required to calculate the current altitude of the plane, but it change of altitude, we can say: The integer that represents the airplane's change of altitude after 10 minutes is 1,500