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Ariel snowboarded down a mountain that has a vertical height of 1,200 feet. She traveled a distance of 2,400 feet from the top of the mountain to the base. The angle of elevation from the base to the top
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Ariel snowboarded down a mountain that has a vertical height of 1,200 feet. She traveled a distance of 2,400 feet from the top of the mountain to the base. The angle of elevation from the base to the top of the mountain is (blank)°.

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For this case what you should do is use the following trigonometric relationship
senx = (1200) / (2400)
senx = 0.5
Clearing the angle we have
x = ASIN (0.5)
x = 30
Answer:
The angle of elevation from the base to the top of the mountain is 30 °
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