Protests and online activism in recent months have brought a resurgence of ethnic Oromo nationalism in Ethiopia. 01 Aug 2014 12:37 GMT | Human Rights, Africa, Ethiopia. Oromo students protested against a government plan to expand Addis Ababa [Jawar Mohammed/Al Jazeera]
You just have to substitute values of slope and vertical distance in formula and get value of horizontal distance. Similarly, any one of them can be found if other two are given. For instance, if you have a slope given in Percentage as 10 % and a vertical distance of 50 feet, then equation will look like:
Calculate the length of a line segment. Remember that a line segment is the portion of a straight line that directly connects two given points. Unlike a line, it does not extend off to infinity in both directions. To find the length, we just use the distance formula between the two points provided. For lessons like this, often the easiest way to learn is by working out an example. Example: Find the distance between (-2,8) and (-7,-5). Said another way, find the length of the line segment between points (-2,8) and (-7,-5). First, find the distance between the x-coordinates. To do this, subtract one number from the other and then take its absolute value. We have: |-2-(-7)| = |5| = 5.