Jim is designing a seesaw for a children’s park. The seesaw should make an angle of 30° with the ground and the maximum height to which it should rise is 2 meters.
-What is the maximum length of the seesaw?

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Jim is designing a seesaw for a children’s park. The seesaw should make an angle of 30° with the ground and the maximum height to which it should rise is 2 meters. 
-What is the maximum length of the seesaw?

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pfenn1 · Answer

|dw:1336526122965:dw| I just learned the other day that in a 60-30-90 triangle (of which this is one) the length of the shortest side (the side opposite the 30 degree angle) is half the length of the hypotenuse, and the length of the other side is the length of the short side times square root of 3.

pfenn1 · Answer

In other words, if x is the length of the short side, then|dw:1336526368245:dw|