Question

A street slopes upward at an angle of 15o with the horizontal. How high does it rise over a horizontal distance of 175 meters? Explain your thinking you use to arrive at your answer.

Answer 1

plz help

Answer 2

So let's draw it out, shall we?

Answer 3

It's sloping upwards at an angle of 15 degrees

For a total of 175 meters

Then how high up are you

Answer 4

Do you know whether we have to use sin? or cos? or tan?

Answer 5

we use cos

Answer 6

mhmm let's look again

we have the angle
we have the side opposite the angle
we also have the side adjacent to the angle

Answer 7

do you remember SOH CAH TOA?

Answer 8

s/he's right

Answer 9

e.e

Answer 10

ophygetra

Answer 11

right, sorry, you're wrong

Answer 12

uh i don't understand swwwy

Answer 13

it's not /hypotenuse

Answer 14

Take a look at the image

we have the angle of 15, right?
We always define the sides based on the angle

the side that is OPPOSITE to the angle is `x` in our question
the hypotenuse is always that longest side which is the ramp part of the triangle

and that leaves the other side as the adjacent side

Answer 15

I think it's 32.15 meters just not sure tho

Answer 16

I just calculated it and I did not get that. Can you show me what numbers you used?

Answer 17

ok

Answer 18

to much u won't me to work it out

Answer 19

oh never mind i got it right swwwy and thx 4 yo help

Answer 20

what did you get? haha

Answer 21

the number i told u

Answer 22

Are you sure? It said that you got it right?

Answer 23

I got

Answer 24

ooh, it really does work, the copy and pastingO-O, cool

Answer 25

yes i am

Answer 26

I googled the question to see if I was really dense but the problem here is that @Sweetie145 also googled it and took her answer from Brainly

but what she doesn't realize is that the question over there has a different number. Over there it's 120 and not 175

Answer 27

LOL, oof

Answer 28

you gotta pay attention to the numbers smh

Answer 29

you could never be dense lmaoooo