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An architect is designing a department store. She wants to add an escalator. She knows that the escalator will make a 30° angle with the floor and will have a vertical height of 36 feet.

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The distance a person would travel on the escalator stairs is 72 ft.The horizontal length needed is approx. 62.35, but in simpliest radical form it's 36√3! Good luck!!!!!!!!!!! <3
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