Question

Santa drives 150 meters up a hill that makes an angle of 12 degrees with the horizontal. To the nearest tenth of a meter, what is the horizontal distance she has covered

Answer 1

santa is a she now? jk

Answer 2

Draw a diagram.

Answer 3

cos 12 = x /150

Answer 4

Apparently Santa is a female now. That would haunt a child forever . . .

Answer 5

**insert angry feminist argument here

Answer 6

using trig we can know
cos(angle) = adjacent leg / hypotenuse

angle = 12 deg
hypotenuse = 150m

= 146.7m

Answer 7

haha, if a lady wants to have a big white beard, i've got nothin againts her!