Question

A skateboard has a slope of 5/8 what is the measure of the angle the ramp forms with the ground to the nearest degree

Answer 1

22 degress

Explanation:

Answer 2

The angle of elevation of the ramp is 32°

How to find the angle?

Remember that for a point (x,y), the angle measured from the x-axis is givein by:

angle = Atan(y/x)

Where the signs may change depending on the quadrant of x and y.

Here the slope is 5/8, so we can use:

y = 5

x = 8

Then the angle is:

angle = Atan(5/8) = 32°