Question

2. Clem Shirestock is running for his life from the cultists whose ritual he's just disrupted on the fourth floor ofan old building in the slums of Altdorf. He can't make his way down the stairs, and finds himself on abalcony, looking at a three story building's flat roof just across the alley. While Clem knows, from hissurveillance of the area, that the alley is about 4 yards across, and estimates that the roof of the building (thathe hopes he may be able to jump to) is at about a 25 degree angle down from the balcony. How far is it to theroof if he makes the jump? (To the nearest tenth of a yard.)

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2. Clem Shirestock is running for his life from the cultists whose ritual he's just disrupted on the fourth floor of an old building in the slums of Altdorf. He can't make his way down the stairs, and finds himself on a

balcony, looking at a three story building's flat roof just across the alley. While Clem knows, from his

surveillance of the area, that the alley is about 4 yards across, and estimates that the roof of the building (that he hopes he may be able to jump to) is at about a 25-degree angle down from the balcony. How far is it to the roof if he makes the jump? (To the nearest tenth of a yard.)

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Problem outline

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tan 65 = b/a

b= tan 65 / a

b= tan 65 / 4 yards

b= 2.14/4

b= 0.536

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The roof is about 0.5 yards