SOLUTION: GENERAL: Kite Flying A straight kite string makes an angle of 40° with the ground. If 250 feet of string has been let out, how high is the kite?

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Question 1125311: GENERAL: Kite Flying A straight kite string makes an angle of 40° with the ground. If 250 feet of string has been let out, how high is the kite?

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GENERAL: Kite Flying A straight kite string makes an angle of 40° with the ground. If 250 feet of string has been let out, how high is the kite?
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It's a right triangle.
The hypotenuse is 250 feet

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