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a stone rolls 300m down a slope as it falls it's drops 120 m vertically calculate the angle of the shape​

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Check the picture below.


\sin(\theta )=\cfrac{\stackrel{opposite}{120}}{\underset{hypotenuse}{300}}\implies \sin(\theta )=\cfrac{2}{5}\implies \theta =\sin^(-1)\left( \cfrac{2}{5} \right)\implies \theta \approx 23.58^o

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