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"You are holding a kite string in your hand. The angle of elevation from your hand to the kite is 53∘and the distance to the kite is 300 feet. Your hand is 4 feet above the ground. How high is the kite? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a foot." // I thought this would be set up as 300*Sin 53 which is 239.59 and rounded to the nearest tenth it'd be 239.6? But my answer is wrong so how else would I set this up?

 Feb 12, 2016
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Your answer is right just add 4 because the hand is 4ft above the ground

 Feb 12, 2016
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243.6 because sin 53 = x / 300. So, 300 times sin 53 =239.5906530141878, and then you just add 4. and then you get 243.6, rounded

 Mar 7, 2016

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