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A kite’s string is 155 meters long and is flying 90 meters in the air. What is the measure of the angle that kite string makes with the ground?

 Oct 20, 2020
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A kite’s string is 155 meters long and is flying 90 meters in the air. What is the measure of the angle that kite string makes with the ground?     

 

sine = opposite over hypotenuse     

 

sine(α)  =  90 / 155     

sine(α)  =  0.5806     

 

arcsin(0.5806)  =  35.5o     

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