Question

A hill that has a 12% grade is one that rises 12.0 m vertically for every 100.0 m of distance in the horizontal direction. At what angle is such a hill inclined above the horizontal?

Answer 1

A diagram would help us out a lot here, and would let us use some trigonometry:

Are you familiar with SOH CAH TOA?

Answer 2

yup

Answer 3

So are you able to solve this problem now to find the angle x (i.e. the angle of the hill)?

Answer 4

7

Answer 5

i got it thx