SOLUTION: Hello, I need help with trigonometry word problem solving. I know how to solve the problems with the SOHCAHTOA ratios, but I don't know how the problems are drawn out. Enclosed

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Question 253755: Hello,
I need help with trigonometry word problem solving. I know how to solve the problems with the SOHCAHTOA ratios, but I don't know how the problems are drawn out. Enclosed are three questions. (I just decided to email all of them in one piece.) Questions preferably answered by 12:00 am (PST) tomorrow (January 5, 2010).
1. A discharge chute on a Reddimix cement truck is 4.7 m long. Chute's angle of inclination is 32 degrees. How far does the cement drop as it moves the length of the chute?

Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You stated "(I just decided to email all of them in one piece.)"
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PS Neither noon nor midnight are am nor pm.
Think about it. How could noon be pm since noon is the m of pm. That would be like saying that noon is after itself. pm means after noon and it also can't be am before noon.

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