TRUE OR FALSE

A kite on a 160-foot string is caught on a pole. When the full length of the string is stretched in a straight line to the ground, it touches the ground a distance of 50 feet from the bottom of the pole.

The string forms an angle of 17° with the ground when it is stretched like this.

Question

TRUE OR FALSE

A kite on a 160-foot string is caught on a pole. When the full length of the string is stretched in a straight line to the ground, it touches the ground a distance of 50 feet from the bottom of the pole. 

The string forms an angle of 17° with the ground when it is stretched like this.

anonymous · Answer

Um.... Thinking its true

anonymous · Answer

This has created a right triangle. So to check, we want to know that Adjacent over hypotenuse and cosign of 17 are equal. Cosign 17 is -0.2752 and 50/160 is equal to 0.3125. Are those equal?