Question

A local park is adding a new 14 ft long slide to the playground. The vertical height of the slide is h. The

distance from the bottom of the stairs to the bottom of the slide needs to be 15 ft. Also, due to safety reasons,
the slide must form a 30° angle with the ground, as shown below.
a. What is the height h of the slide? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
b. To the nearest degree, what angle x will the stairs form with the ground?

Answer 1

if you go on google and look up hypotnuse calculator you can find the other length, and for the angles. just thing that the interior angles of a triangle add up to 180°