Question

A 25-foot ladder is placed against a building and the top of the ladder makes a 32° angle with the building. How many feet away from the building is the base of the ladder?

Answer 1

since the top of the ladder is making the angle, the of the ladder's base from the building is our opposite and the ladder is the hypotnuse,

sin (32)=opp/hyp, 0.52=opp/25, opp=13 ft