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A fire truck has a ladder that can extend to 120 ft in length. The ladder can be safely raised to the maximum angle of 75 with the horizontal. Disregarding the height of the fire truck itself which is the closest to the maximum height the ladder can safely reach

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A fire truck has a ladder that can extend to 120 ft in length. The ladder can be safely-example-1
User MeetMrMet
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Answer:

the ladder is 60 feet and the angle is 75 degrees guess and check sin75=x/60

0.9659258263=x/60

57.9555=x

57.96=x

so B

User Vinay Kolar
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