Question

David is building a bike ramp. He wants the angle that the ramp makes with the ground to be 20. If the board he wants to use for his ramp is 312feet long, about how tall will the ramp need to be at the highest point?

Answer 1

it's about 106.71ft

Explanation:

make this problem a triangle. the ramp length is 312ft, and it is the hypotenuse of the triangle. 20 is the angle between the ramp and the floor. so what I did was take the sine of 20 and get: sin(20)=x/312 then you multiply both sides by 312 to isolate the variable. multiplying sin(20) by 312 gave me 106.71 + some change idk if you're supposed to round it or not haha.