Suppose there is a 1.2 Fahrenheit drop in temperature for every thousand feet that an airplane climbs into the sky if the temper

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ature on the ground is 64.7 Fahrenheit what will the temperature be when the plane reaches an altitude of 5000 feet

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Nostrana [21] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-23T04:03:02+03:00

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58.7 °F

Step-by-step explanation:

At 5000 feet, the airplane is 5 times 1000 feet above the ground, so the temperature will have dropped 5 times 1.2 °F.

64.7 - 5×1.2 = 64.7 -6.0 = 58.7

At 5000 feet, the temperature is 58.7 °F.