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A kite flying 90 off the ground and it’s string

A kite flying 90 off the ground and it’s string-example-1
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To find the length of the string we need to remember that in any right triangle:


\sin \theta=\frac{\text{opp}}{\text{hyp}}

In this case the angle is 48°, the opposite leg is 90 and the hypotenuse will be the length of the string then we have that:


\begin{gathered} \sin 48=\frac{90}{\text{hyp}} \\ \text{hyp}=(90)/(\sin 48) \\ \text{hyp}=121.1 \end{gathered}

Therefore the length of the string is 121.1 ft

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