Question

a 15 foot rope stretches diagonally from the ground to the top of a tent 9 feet off the ground. What angle does the rope form with the ground?

Answer 1

Answer:

36.9° (rounded answer)

Step-by-step explanation:

You can use Trig to solve this.  The height of the triangle is the height of the tent, which is the opposite side to the angle with a length of 9.  The hypotenuse of the triangle is the rope, which has a length of 15, so we have

Sin X = 9/15

use sin^(-1) function to solve this.  

Sin^(-1)(9/15) = 36.386989765°