A mountain girl is climbing to the top of a large cliff. The cliff is 50 feet higher than a starting point if it takes the goat 22 minutes to climb this cliff, interpret the quotient to describe the rate of change in the Gots elevation give your answer to the nearest hundred.
The quotient that best represents the rate of change in the goat elevation is [_______]feet/minutes
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The quotient that best represents the rate of change in the goat's elevation is 2.3 feet/minute.
To find the rate of change in the goat's elevation, we divide the change in elevation by the time it takes. In this case, the cliff is 50 feet higher than the starting point, and it takes 22 minutes for the goat to climb the cliff.
Therefore, the rate of change in the goat's elevation is:
50 feet / 22 minutes.
To find this quotient to the nearest hundred, we divide 50 by 22, which gives us:
50/22 ≈ 2.2727...
Rounding this to the nearest hundred, we get:
2.27 feet/minute.
So, the quotient that best represents the rate of change in the goat's elevation is approximately 2.27 feet/minute.