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Question 199425: this is my math problem.
How Far away from a building are you standing if you know the building is 295' high and the angle of elevation to the top of the building is 65 degrees?
and i dont know how to find the answer.
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Question 199605: Sorry I did not finish the question the first time correctly Sorry please help
ASAP!!!!!! Thanks guy
A recreation room has the following dimensions. Carpeting will cost $8.00 a square yard. How many square yards of carpet will be needed and how much wil it cost.
5yd, 11yd, 4yd, and 4yd.
this is the only was I know how to explain this Please help.
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Question 199738: Carpenters and builders will sometimes measure 3 ft from a corner along one wall and 4 ft along the other, then check that it's 5 ft between the 2 points. If it is, the walls are "square", at right angles.
If the two short sides of a building are 3 and 4 how would you show carefully that you used the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the diagonal as 5?
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Question 199738: Carpenters and builders will sometimes measure 3 ft from a corner along one wall and 4 ft along the other, then check that it's 5 ft between the 2 points. If it is, the walls are "square", at right angles.
If the two short sides of a building are 3 and 4 how would you show carefully that you used the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the diagonal as 5?
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Question 200364: Hi all, im having a bit of trouble with some triangle problems, in all of the I know the length of two sides and one angle is given. How do I find the length of the unknown side and the valus of the unknown angles?
Here is an example: Triangle 1 has side AB = 11, side AC = 10 and angle B = 15 Degrees. Find length of side AB.
If anyone can help me out that would be great. I would also like to learn how to solve for the unknown angles in the above question. Thanks, -Nick.
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Question 200522: i need help with understaning how to do my math project. i have to find a object that is to big to measure. then measure my shadow and that objects shadow.and then use the properties of similar triangles to determine the hight of the chosen object.
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Question 200543: can you help me with this word problem:
an avid hiker decides to climb K2,one of the worlds tallest mountains.From her her base camp at the foot of the mountain, she measures an angle of elevation of 30 degrees. Estimates of the mountains height, from its base, are 23,050 feet. How far is it from the hiker to the top of K2?
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Question 200544: Can you help me with this word problem:
A murder of crows are passing over some corn fields. They spot some crickets and grasshoppers feasting on the corn, some 500 feet below. The angle of depression is 30 degrees.How high up are the crows?
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Question 200556: IF YOU HAVE TWO TRIANGLES AND THEY ARE SIMILAR TO EAC OTHER, ONE NAMED PQR AND THE OTHER NAMED XYZ, AND PQR SIDES ARE LABELED SIDE QP=9 AND SIDE PR=27. AND TRIANGLE XYZ HAS YX=5. AND QP=YX AND PR=ZX. AND I HAD TO FIND THE MISSING SIDE WHICH IS ZX, WHAT WILL BE THE ANSWER.
THANKS,
MIKAYLA
P.S. IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER, THANK YOU ANYWAY
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Question 202764: VERY URGENT. Please help me. :)
Jodi drove her car 20.0 km due to north before making a right turn and going 100 km due to east at which point she made an undetermined displacement, she ended up 85.0 km away from her when she started at a direction of 41 degrees relative to the x-axis at her point of origin. What was the 3rd displacement?
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Question 202764: VERY URGENT. Please help me. :)
Jodi drove her car 20.0 km due to north before making a right turn and going 100 km due to east at which point she made an undetermined displacement, she ended up 85.0 km away from her when she started at a direction of 41 degrees relative to the x-axis at her point of origin. What was the 3rd displacement?
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Question 203430: Hi, could you guide me about my mistake?
What are the lengths of sides of an equilateral triangle of height 3 cm?
My solution is:
I regard if I intersect this triangle to two right triangles I can use of following formula which I remember of high school:
Sin alpha = opposite side/hypotenuse
I consider: Sin 60=h/c
So I will have radical1/2= 3/c
therefore c =6 = a = b
but its not ok cause 3^2 +^2 is not equal to 6^2!
one more thing: could you tell me do I can use of Sin alpha = opposite side/hypotenuse
and Cos alpha = adjacent side/hypotenuse for all the angles in a triangle? even for a right angle?
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Question 203960: HI EVERYONE. SORRY, BUT MY LAST QUESTION WAS WRITTEN WRONG! It should have been the following:
What should replace the term D to complete the following trigonometric identity?
(Answer needs to be a function of a.)
cos^2a + D = 1
Thanks again, -Nick.
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Question 204722: Two isosceles triangles have the same base length. The legs of one of the triangles are twice as long as the legs of the other. Find the lengths of the sides of both triangles if their perimeters are 23 cm and 41 cm.
I haven't done much with this problem because whenever I try to solve I wind up with a weird number. I know that the perimeter of a triangle is P= a+b+c so it would be 41=a+b+c and 23=a+b+c but that is pretty obvious. Please help!
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Question 204722: Two isosceles triangles have the same base length. The legs of one of the triangles are twice as long as the legs of the other. Find the lengths of the sides of both triangles if their perimeters are 23 cm and 41 cm.
I haven't done much with this problem because whenever I try to solve I wind up with a weird number. I know that the perimeter of a triangle is P= a+b+c so it would be 41=a+b+c and 23=a+b+c but that is pretty obvious. Please help!
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Question 204845: 1.) a triangle legs 8 base of 10 vertex angle at 78 degrees what is the base angle X in degrees.
2. A triangle with one of the leg is 8 base is 10 the vertex angle 63 degrees base angle is 54 degrees What is the other leg X?
THIS IS COMING FROM A WORKSHEET
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Question 205464: I have a problem that has stumped me that has not been covered in our course material, as far as way the problem is structured. It involves the pythagorean theorum. It asks, if you were to construct a right triangle where the shortest side is 5 feet less than the longest side and 3 feet more than the shortest side, what are the length of all three sides?
I know the formula, but I am confused on how it should be translated. I tried (h-8)^2 + (h-7)^2 = h^2 but I end up with 2 similar factorable polynomials and keep running into prime number 113 and not a quadratic problem. Any help would be great.
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