Imagine that you are hiking up a mountain peak. You begin hiking at a trailhead and end near the summit. The vertical distance between these two points is about 4,855 feet. The horizontal distance between these two points is about 17,625 feet. Calculate the angle of elevation from the trailhead to the summit.

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anonymous · Answer

use pythagorean's theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse, then use the law of sines to find the angle from the trail head to the summit