SOLUTION: A stick is placed against a vertical wall with it foot on the horizontal ground. The distance between the foot of the stick and the wall is 16m and the angle of the ladder to the h
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Question 1013729: A stick is placed against a vertical wall with it foot on the horizontal ground. The distance between the foot of the stick and the wall is 16m and the angle of the ladder to the horizontal is 62 degree. Calculate the height of the wall.
Answer by ikleyn(52810) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The stick or the ladder?
Keep uniform your nomenclature of objects.
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