Natalie is a graduate student living in Bozeman Montana and

Natalie is a graduate student living in Bozeman, Montana, and an avid hiker and mountaineer. Currently, she is taking some of her out-of-town friends on a hike in the nearby Gallatin mountains. As they walk along the trail, their elevation increases by 300 vertical feet for each horizontal mile (5280 feet). What is the slope of the trail? (in a fraction form?)

Solution

Slope = rise /run = 300/( 1*5280)= 30/528 = 10/176 = 5/88