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ANEK [815]
3 years ago
5

A fire truck has a ladder that can extend to 60 feet in length. the ladder can be safely raised to a maximum angle of 75o with t

he horizontal. disregarding the height of the fire truck itself, which is closest to the maximum height that the ladder can safely reach?
Mathematics
1 answer:
gogolik [260]3 years ago
7 0
This is a problem on right triangle trigonometry. The hypotenuse is 60 feet and the unknown side is opposite the given 75-degree angle. Given these values, we will use the sine function. That is 
     sin\left(75^{\circ} \right)=\frac{h}{60}

     h=60\cdot sin\left(75^{\circ} \right)=58\:feet

<span>The maximum height that the ladder can safely reach is closest to 58 feet. </span>
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