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Using soh cah toa find length of PN and round answer to nearest tenth of a foot?

Using soh cah toa find length of PN and round answer to nearest tenth of a foot?-example-1
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Answer:

About 2.6 feet

Explanation:

The tangent of an angle in a right triangle is the length of the opposite side divided by the length of the adjacent side. Therefore:


\tan 17= (x)/(8.6) \\\\x=\tan 17 \cdot 8.6\approx 2.6

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