Given that the slide is 4.3 m long and makes an angle of 31°, then to get how high the slide is above the ground we use trigonometry formula. sin θ=opposite/hypotenuse opposite=x=how high the slide is above the ground hypotenuse=length of the slide=4.3 m θ=31° plugging the values in the formula and solving for x we obtain sin 31=x/4.3 x=4.3×tan 31 x=4.3(0.6009) x=2.58387 x~2.6 m
Hence we conclude that the top of the slide is approximately 2.6 m from the ground
