Jake wants to post a 600 gram parcel and an 800 gram parcel.
He posts them Second Class.
He pays with a £10 note.
How much change should he get?
Interesting problem ...
The key is to realize that the wires have some distance to the ground, that does not change.
The pole does change. But the vertical height of the pole plus the distance from the pole to the wires is the distance ground to the wires all the time. In other words, for any angle one has:
D = L * sin(alpha) + d, where D is the distance wires-ground, L is the length of the pole, alpha is the angle, and 'd' is the distance from the top of the (inclined) pole to the wires:
L*sin(40) + 8 = L*sin(60) + 2, so one can get the length of the pole:
L = (8-2)/(sin(60) - sin(40)) = 6/0.2232 = 26.88 ft (be careful to have the calculator in degrees not rad)
So the pole is 26.88 ft long!
If the wires are higher than 26.88 ft, no problem. if they are below, the concerns are justified and it won't pass!
Your statement does not mention the distance between the wires and the ground. Do you have it?
Answer: 3x + 15 = 51
x is the number of laps that she swims on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Since she swims the same amount, we can multiply x by three. Since Saturday gives us an explicit answer, we can just add that to the equation.
Hope this helps :)
For this case what you should do is use the following trigonometric relationship:
sin (x) = C.O / h
Where
x: angle
C.O: opposite leg
h: hypotenuse
Substituting the values we have:
sen (60) = long / h
sen (60) = 3 / h
h = 3 / sin (60)
h = 3.46
Answer:
h = 3.46
The Answer for "X" is going to be 25.63201, rounded to the nearest tenth would be 25.6.
I hope this helped :)
