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A tower is supported by a guy wire from the top of the tower to the ground 16 ft from its base. The wire makes an angle of 62 degrees w
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Question 764064: Please show me how to solve this problem,
A tower is supported by a guy wire from the top of the tower to the ground 16 ft from its base. The wire makes an angle of 62 degrees with the ground. The length of the wire is:
a) 30.09
b) 18.12
c) 28.41
d) 34.08
Thanks so much! Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A tower is supported by a guy wire from the top of the tower to the
ground 16 ft from its base.
The wire makes an angle of 62 degrees with the ground.
The length of the wire is:
:
The ground & the tower form a right triangle, the wire is the hypotenuse
:
We can use the cosine here (side adjacent/hypotenuse):
cos(62) =
.46947h = 16
h =
h = 34.08
