You will travel 5,280ft, which is 1 mile.
for every 100 feet of road you travel, you rise 9 feet
If you have a 2 percent grade over a distance of a mile, the vertical change is 105.6 feet. A half a mile is 52.8 feet.
A two percent road grade is a grade where the road rises 2 units for every 100 units travelled.100 feet horizontal travel, will result in a two foot gain in elevation. It is a relatively shallow gradient.
For ever 100 ft you go forward. You also go down by 6 feet in elevation.
324inches, or 27 feet
A 10% grade rises 1 foot for every 10 feet that it proceeds horizontally. This can go on for miles.
The elevation changes 8 feet per every 100 feet of distance.
That's a much better grade than an A, like an A+++. Seriously, it describes feet of rise (or fall) per 100 feet of travel.
1056 feet
8.88 inches
This would be rise over run. I don't think I can explain why. Tangent
105.6 feet