Question

Miguel drives 200 meters up a hill that makes an angle of 7 degrees with the horizontal ground. To the nearest tenth of a meter, what horizontal distance has he covered? (Only round your answer once)

Answer 1

Explanation:

The hypotenuse is 200 meters.

The angle making the ground and the Hypotenuse is 7 degrees.

The trig relationship needed is the cosine.

Cos(7) = x / 200 Multiply both sides by 200

200*cos(7) = x

200* 0.9925 = x

x = 198.51

The calculator held the actual answer of cos(7)