Question

An old house has a basement stairway that has steps with 7.25 inch vertical risers and 10 inch horizontal treads. What is the slope of the stairway? Round to two decimal places.

Answer 1

Final answer is slope = 0.73

Explanation:

Given that an old house has a basement stairway.

Stairway has steps with 7.25 inch vertical risers and 10 inch horizontal treads. Now we need to find about what is the slope of the stairway. Also round the answer to two decimal places.

`slope=(rise)/(run)=(7.25)/(10)=0.725`

Now round that value to two decimal places gives 0.73

Hence final answer is slope = 0.73