SOLUTION: A television transmitter tower is 400 feet high. If the angle between the guy wire (attached at the top) and the tower is 54.4°, how long is the guy wire?
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Question 1123574: A television transmitter tower is 400 feet high. If the angle between the guy wire (attached at the top) and the tower is 54.4°, how long is the guy wire?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A television transmitter tower is 400 feet high.
If the angle between the guy wire (attached at the top) and the tower is 54.4°, how long is the guy wire?
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You can see this is a right triangle where the guy wire is the hypotenuse (h), the two legs are the tower and the dist from the tower to the guy anchor
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Use the sine of the angle: side opposite/hypotenuse
sin(54.4) =
h =
h ~ 492 ft
