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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Viola drives 200 meters up a hill that makes an angle of 9° with the horizontal. To the nearest tenth of a meter, what horizontal distance has she covered?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

As you might know, cosine= adjacent/hypotenuse so here cos(9)=horizontal distance/200 and so horizontal distance=200*cos(9)

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