document.write( "Question 70379: can you help with this wordproblem....A telephone pole is 55 feet tall. A guy wire 80 feet long is attached from the ground to the top of the pole.Find the angle between the wire and the pole to the nearest degree. \n" ); document.write( "

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can you help with this wordproblem....A telephone pole is 55 feet tall. A guy wire 80 feet long is attached from the ground to the top of the pole.Find the angle between the wire and the pole to the nearest degree.
\n" ); document.write( "|\ You have an adjacent side of a right triangle in the telephone pole: 55 ft.
\n" ); document.write( "You have a hypotenuse of a right triangle in the guy wire: 80 ft
\n" ); document.write( "cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse
\n" ); document.write( " $\"cos%28x%29=55%2F80\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"x=cos%5E%28-1%29%2855%2F80%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( "Put that in your calculator and make sure you're in degree mode.
\n" ); document.write( " $\"x=46.56946344\"$ Round to the nearest degree.
\n" ); document.write( " $\"highlight%28x=47%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( "Happy Calculating!!!! \n" ); document.write( "

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