The angle measure of a straight line is 180°, and so if the you know that one angle off of it is (5x)°, then you know that the other section is (180 - 5x)°.
Because it's an isosceles triangle, there are two identical angles, which happen to be the angles with the measure of (5x - 30)° and (180 - 5x)°.
Since they have the same measure, 5x - 30 = 180 - 5x. Solve:
Thus,
x = 21°.
Answer:
12ft
Step-by-step explanation:
Behold, my crudely drawn diagram!!!
Edit: The red side is the hypotenuse/escalator length, the green side is adjacent to the angle/the escalator height, and the blue bits refer to the angle. Also it's supposed to be a right triangle but I forgot the little box we typically put in the corner to indicate the 90° angle.
Using some geometric knowledge of right triangles, we know that the Cosine of an angle is equal to the length of the adjacent side divided by the lenght of the hypotenuse. So:
Cos(39.81°) = h ÷ 15.5ft
*Here I've called the top of the escalator's height "h"*
By solving for h and plugging it into a calculator I get:
h = Cos(39.81°)•(15.5) = 11.906...
But they want it rounded to the nearest foot, so your answer is 12ft.
Answer:
The slope of the line = m = 2
Step-by-step explanation:
Given
The points
To determine:
The slope of this graph
Determining the slope between (0, 0) and (1, 2)
Using the formula
Slope = m = [y₂ - y₁] / [x₂ - x₁]
= [2 - 0] / [1 - 0]
= 2 / 1
Thus, the slope of the line = m = 2
A point on the graph (for train b) that is exact is (2,250). From the origin, the rise is 250 and the run is 2. Rise/run would give us 250/2, which is 125. This means that train B travels 125mi every hour. For train A, we subtract the distance from hour 2 from hour 3 to get the miles per hour (because 3-2=1, subtracting the distance of hour 3 from 2 will give us the distance in 1 hour). 180-120= 60, meaning train A travels at 60mph. 60<125, meaning A