A boy flying a kite has released 250 ft of string. If he ties the string to a stake in the ground and measure the angle of elevation to be 53 degrees, how high is the kite?

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anonymous · Answer

You construct a triangle with a hypotenuse of 250 and you know that sin(53) = opposite side/hypotenuse and the opposite side happens to be the elevation, so x~199.659

anonymous · Answer

Okay I understand how you got that but where do we put the 53 degrees?

cwrw238 · Answer

sin 53 = x / 250    where x is the elevation
so 
x = 250 * sin 53 = 199.659

anonymous · Answer

Okay thank you now how would i draw the triangle? like this?

anonymous · Answer

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