Question

Mary walks a certain distance up a road that climbs a hill. The vertical component of her displacement is 17.63 meters, and the horizontal component of her displacement is 100 meters. What is the road's approximate angle of inclination?

A.
10 degrees
B.
13 degrees
C.
17 degrees
D.
20 degrees

Answer 1

Ight so first ya wanna divide \[17.63 meters \div100 meters\] =0.1763

Answer 2

Then u wanna do 0.1763 divided by 10 and it should show u that 10 is the responable answer here

Answer 3

How you would go about doing this is that you have your vertical components and horizontal components, you can draw a triangle,

Using trig identities, we have \[\tan(\theta) = 17.63/100\]
Now \[\tan^{-1} (17.63/100) = \]

Answer 4

Thank you guys, you helped me out a lot!

Answer 5

np.

Answer 6

hoodmemes, I dunno how you got your answer tbh. Since we were working with a vertical, horizontal component and an angle we needed to use trig. So I dunno if your method is correct.
Nevertheless np kaylynnRenee