3.3 properties of slopes. have you ever stood at the top of a ski hill and read the signs? bunny run...
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Have you ever stood at the top of a ski hill and
read the signs?Bunny RunMain StreetWipe OutTerminator
What do these signs tell you?
They are all descriptions of how steep (dangerous) each hill is.
This is all you need if all you are doing is snowboarding.
What if you were an engineer and you wanted to build a roller coaster
Engineers have created a mathematical measure for the
steepness of a line
Slope: The measure of a line’s steepness