Hey you must be in geometry for k12, im doing the same project.
For this, you have to use inverse tangent to find theta. The terms were opposite, adjacent. You take inverse tangent because you are looking for the angle.
Tan-1(8/425) = 1.078 BUT!!!!
It is not 8 ft BECAUSE you probably just took the fence height and thats it. You can't do that because then the fence height itself is taking the 2 ft from the ground to the bat which doesn't count towards the angle. You take 8-2 to get the fence height from the BAT to the FENCE TOP.So, that would be 6ft. Also, the sentence did say "hit 2 ft above the ground" which means you wouldn't use those 2 ft for the height
Tan-1(6/425) = 0.8088
As you can see, that angle elevation would count for the baseball field that has an angle elevation of less than 0.86 degrees, this is where this question came into play, basically answering that.
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