SOLUTION: Imagine you are standing 4 meters away from a painting hung on a wall. If the top of the painting is 3 meters from the ground, which expressions represent the angle, θ, that your

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Question 1152819: Imagine you are standing 4 meters away from a painting hung on a wall. If the top of the painting is 3 meters from the ground, which expressions represent the angle, θ, that your feet make with the top of the painting?

Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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Draw this, and it is a right triangle with base 4 and altitude 3. The tangent or cotangent deals with these two sides.
tan theta=3/4 (opposite over adjacent)
theta=tan(^-1)(3/4)