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PLEASE HELP ME! 6 points! I don’t understand

PLEASE HELP ME! 6 points! I don’t understand-example-1

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We have a right triangle hypotenuse 80 and adjacent angle 87°

So the short leg s is

s = 80 cos 87° = 4.19

rounded to two places. So the height we seek is 7 - 4.19 or

Answer: 2.81 feet

User Ramatou
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2.813123501 ft

solution:

h/80=cos 87
h=80*cos87
x=7-(80*cos 87)
x=2.813123
User Jqw
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