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Answer 1

Here we don't know the length of the hypo, but do have measures of both legs of this right triangle:  x and 40 yd.

  Use the tangent function to determine the value of x:

  x
--------- = tan 62 degrees.  Solving for x:    x = (40 yd)(tan 62 deg).  
40 yd                                  can you evaluate this yourself?