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Urgent Help needed w/ right triangle trig

Urgent Help needed w/ right triangle trig-example-1
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sin(73)=x/19

x= 18.169...

Answer is 18.2 feet

User Dianovich
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So if we have a right triangle with a 19ft hypotenuse or ladder, and it makes a 73deg angle with the ground. So we can use the sine of the angle to find the height.

sin(73)=y/19
y=19sin(73)
y=18.2ft is the height

Hope this helps. Any questions please just ask. Thank you.
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