SOLUTION: a kite flying 200 feet above the ground is attached to a string that is 300 feet long tied to a stake on the ground. Approximate the angle of elevation formed by the string and the

Question 830457: a kite flying 200 feet above the ground is attached to a string that is 300 feet long tied to a stake on the ground. Approximate the angle of elevation formed by the string and the ground to the nearest degree.
I believe you need to use the reciprocal so something along the lines of cos-1=(200/300) or flip the two in the parentheses but I get an answer of .026 which I feel cannot be right.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The angle the string makes with the ground is
the angle whose sine is
If the angle is , the

On my calculator:

To the nearest degree, that is 42 degrees

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