105k views
5 votes
If the height of a mountain erodes away by a total of

1 cm in 5 years and it decreased by the same
amount each year, then what is that change in
height every year?

User Frisko
by
5.9k points

1 Answer

5 votes
The change in height every year is 0.2cm aka 2 millimeters.

1cm/5years = 0.2cm/1yr
User Marlo
by
5.6k points