A ladder leaning against a wall makes a 60° angle with the ground. The base of the ladder is 4m from the building. How high above the ground is the top of the ladder?

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The ladder would be the hypotenuse of a right triangle with a known angle of 60 degrees and adjacent side of length 4m, so the opposite side of the right triangle or height can be determined by the tangent function by the relationship tangent of sixty degrees equals opposite over adjacent. The height would then be tan(60) multiplied by the adjacent length 4m.

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i don't understand

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You don't understand the vocab or the solution?

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Hypotenuse is the slanted ladder, the wall is unknown and the ground length is the adjacent, or next to

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Tan is tangent, its on your calculator and you multiply the angle by tan then multiply the result with 4

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