Draw a right triangle with a horizontal side and a vertical side going up from one endpoint of the horizontal side. These two sides form the right angle of the triangle. Then draw a hypotenuse. The hypotenuse has length 40 ft. The acute angle at the end to the horizontal side measures 51°.
Let the length of the vertical side be y.
sin 51° = y/40
y = 40 * sin 51°
y = 31.1
The horizontal side of the triangle is not the ground. It is at the height of Jennifer's hand. Now we add 6 ft to the height.
Step-by-step explanation: because the decimal terminates, it is necessarily rational - specifically, rational with a denominator that is a power of 10. Thus 1.3 = 13/10, 0.5761 = 5761/10000, and
