Question

A highway makes an angle of 6 degrees with the horizontal. This angle is maintained for a horizontal distance of 5 miles.
To the nearest hundredth of a mile, how high does the highway rise in this 5-mile section? Show the steps you use to find the distance.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

O.K. To your question:

Can you try to draw a figure of this problem using the draw button ?

Answer 3

there is no figure

Answer 4

I mean can you try to draw a figure using given data ?

Answer 5

no..... i am not a math person by any means...

Answer 6

Oh .. Our site aims at getting to the answer by making the asker participate !We just guide you through the process.. ! It is not that hard to draw a figure for this question .Please try

Answer 7

i guess i have no idea if this would even be right or not

Answer 8

Good effort ! Well according to me the fig would be like

Answer 9

we need to find h . We can use the trigonometry here .

take tan 6 degree for this triangle

Answer 10

i am in geometry 2 not trigonometry....

Answer 11

i have no idea what trig is about

Answer 12

Oh then I think you need to take approximation

\[\huge \boxed{\theta =\dfrac{\text{arc length}}{radius}}\]

Answer 13

here it will be theta =h/5

Answer 14

first convert 6 degree to radian measure..then use this formula

Answer 15

ok well thank you for trying to help me but you are speaking a foreign language to me....

Answer 16

you dont know English ? :/

Answer 17

wow that was dumb.... yes i know english i dont understand what you are talking about i.e. foriegn language... figure of speech