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Mumz [18]
2 years ago
13

An escalator in a department store is to carry people a vertical distance of 18 feet between floors. How long is the escalator i

f it makes and angle of 40° with the floor? Round to 1 decimal place.

Mathematics
1 answer:
melisa1 [442]2 years ago
6 0
Drawing out the triangle, we get the one below. We can use the trigonometric ratio of tan to solve this problem.
tan40= \frac{18}{x}
x= \frac{18}{tan40}
x=21.5

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