Question

A home has 3 stairs leading to its front door with each stair having a vertical height of 10 inches and a horizontal tread length of 18 inches. When a new refrigerator is delivered to the home, the delivery people lay down a wooden plank over the stairs so that they can roll the refrigerator up the plank

What angle, to the nearest degree, does the wooden plank form with the ground

Answer 1

@jiteshmeghwal9

Answer 2

Using the tangent function
Let x be the angle between wooden plank and horizontal.

Tan x = 30/54

Answer 3

For this type of questions u must learn to use the trigonometric functions and to specify the perpendicular base hypotenuse wrt the angle given in the triangle.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

how do you find tangent

Answer 6

@jabez177