Posted by SAO on Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 1:33pm.
Think of the top of the tree as 22 on the y axis, the bottom of the pole on the ground 6 away from the origin in the positive x direction.
Slope = change in y / change in x
Slope = (22 - 0) / (6 - 0) = ....
I think you can do the rest.
Hope this helped. Peace.
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