Ong Teh and John Moran

May 22, 2014

Is This Ramp on Standard

Ramp B doesnt meet the safety standard of 1/12 or a slope of 0.083333. The majority of the
ramp is elevated so we had to measure without the wood and that gave us 50 cm, the rise. Then we
measured the run, this gave us 595 cm. Then we got the coordinates, (0,50) and (595,0). We inserted the
coordinates into the slope formula, y1-y2/x1-x2, and got -50/595. Then we divided the numbers and got
0.084033, it was legal. But then we noticed the other end wasnt touching the asphalt, so we studied the
ramp even closer and found out that there was just a random piece of metal to make the elevated ramp
touch the ground. So we had to find the slope of the little slope, so we redid the steps. We got a rise of 4
cm and a run of 61.5 cm. After we put the coordinates into the formula, we got -4/61.5, so we divided
and got 0.6504065041, this was way of the standard, so I declare Ramp B off the standard for a safe
wheelchair ramp.

50cm

595cm