SOLUTION: Viola drives 170 meters up a hill that makes an angle of 6 degrees with the horizontal. To the nearest tenth of meter, what horizontal distance has she covered? Show all your work

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Hi,

Let x represent horizontal distance      

cos x = adj/hyp

cos 7 = x/170m

  = x