A plane is flying at an altitude of 45,000 feet. It begins to drop in altitude 3,000 feet per minute

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    math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

    A plane is flying at an altitude of 45,000 feet. It begins to drop in altitude 3,000 feet per minute. What is the slope in this situation?

    Set up a graph where minutes is on the x-axis and altitude is on the y-axis.
    1. Minute 1 = (1, 42,000)
    2. Minute 2 = (2, 39,000)
    3. Minute 3 = (3, 36,000)
    4. Minute 4 = (4, 33,000)
    You can see for every 1 unit move in x, we get a -3,000 unit move in y.

    Pick any of these 2 points, and use our slope calculator to get:
    Slope = -3,000
     

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