Question

A roller coaster travels 193 ft at an angle of
35.3
◦
above the horizontal.
How far does it move horizontally?
Answer in units of ft

Answer 1

Sorry, those question marks are supposed to be the degrees sign. By using trigonometry, you can calculate the horizontal distance. Do you know how to do that?

Answer 2

i never took trig.

Answer 3

Ah, okay. I guess that's kind of difficult in this situation, because to get the horizontal, you need cos(theta) to answer it.