Answer:
Her Verticle ramp support was 5.5 ft tall.
Explanation:
In this type of question, you would need to use the saying "soh cah toa".
Soh Cah Toa is a saying that people use for Sin, Cosine, and tagent. Each of those mean
Sine: opposite/hypotenuse Cosine: Adjacent/hypotenuse and Tagent: Opposite/Adjacent
In this specific question to figure out how tall or high her support is or needs to be have to 20 degree angle off the ground, you will need to use Sin which is opposite over Hypotenuse or x/16
To find the answer in your calculator you would do:
Sin(20)=x/16
First thing you do is the get the x on one side by itself so you would multiply 16 on both sides giving you:
16 × Sin(20)= x
You would then follow to put Sin(20) in your calculator giving you 0.34202014332
After that you multiply that number by 16
5.47232229321
Rounding to the nearest tenth you get answer:
5.5