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What's a 12% glideslope? (asks a mentally retarded ATPL student)

What is meant by a 12% glideslope?

Is it 12% of a 90 deg from horizontal (a vertical 'glideslope'), i.e. 10.8 deg?

Or is it 12% of a 1-to-1 glideslope (45% angle from horizontal/vertical), i.e. 5.4 deg?

Or is it a twelve-along-one-down affair, ie ~7.2 deg from hortizontal?

[sorry for the stupid questions, I've confused the hell out of myself with this one!]

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