Question

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Your towns public library is building a new wheelchair ramp to its entrance. By law the maximum angle of incline for the ramp is 4.76 degrees. The ramp will have a vertical rise of 2.5 ft. What is the shortest horizontal distance that the ramp can span?

Answer 1

24.02 feet

Explanation:

For this case we can model the problem as a rectangle triangle.

We have the angle between the base and the hypotenuse of the triangle.

We have the height of the triangle.

We want to calculate the base of the triangle.

Then I'll let you find the equations! Hopefully this helped