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A 30-ft ladder leans up against the side of a building and just reaches a ledge on the building that is 20 feet above the ground.  Find the angle the ladder makes with the ground, to the nearest hundredth of a degree. 

 Dec 17, 2014

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We  knpw an opposite side(20) ......the ladder forms the hypoteneuse of  right tringle... we can use the sine inverse to find this

Sin-1(20/30)  = about 41.81 degrees

 

 Dec 17, 2014
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Best Answer

We  knpw an opposite side(20) ......the ladder forms the hypoteneuse of  right tringle... we can use the sine inverse to find this

Sin-1(20/30)  = about 41.81 degrees

 

CPhill Dec 17, 2014

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