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A boy is flying a kite and has let out 300 feet of string. He notices that the angle the string makes with the ground is 38 degrees. How high over the ground is the kite?

A boy is flying a kite and has let out 300 feet of string. He notices that the angle-example-1

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Answer:

height = 184.7 feet

Explanation:

sin 38 = height/300

0.6157 = height/300

height = 184.7 feet

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