document.write( "Question 972728: A wheelchair ramp is to be built beside the steps to the campus library. Find the angle of elevation of the 23-foot ramp, to the nearest tenth of a degree, if its final height is 6 feet \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #594988 by Boreal(15235)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! The ramp is the hypotenuse and the elevation is the short leg of a right triangle\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The sine is opposite over hypotenuse, and the angle of the ramp with the ground is the sine.\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Sine=6/23\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "arc sin (6/23)=15.1 degrees. \n" ); document.write( " |