Question

What is the length of the x-component of the vector shown below?

A. 20.3
B. 19.8
C. 85.7
D. 12.7

Answer 1

What is the length of the x-component of the vector shown below?

C. 85.7

Answer 2

If you shine a light straight down onto that vector, then the length of its shadow on the x-axis is

x-component = 88 · cosine(13°)

x-component = 88 · (0.9744)

x-component = 85.74