SOLUTION: Trya is building a bike ramp. She wants the angle that the bike ramp makes with the ground to be 20 degrees. If the board she wants to use for her ramp is 3 1/2 feet long, about

Question 951886: Trya is building a bike ramp. She wants the angle that the bike ramp makes with the ground to be 20 degrees. If the board she wants to use for her ramp is 3 1/2 feet long, about how tall will the ramp need to be at its highest point?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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Using the approximate value for we get
--->(rounded).
Since , , and ,
with a height of , the angle will be , which is close enough.

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