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Jack Large

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Use the Pythagorean Theorem for right triangles. Measure the distance between the bottom and top of the feature in a straight line to find the hypotenuse.

Square the rise and subtract the result from the hypotenuse squared. Take the square root of the result to find the run, WBMS

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