Answer: 700 miles.
Step-by-step explanation:
1. You know that 23% of the total distance of the flight from Albuquerque New Mexico to Austin Texas is 161 miles.
2. Then, keeping that information on mind, you can calculate the total distance of the flight (which you call ) as following:
Solve for . Then, you obtain that the result is:
9514 1404 393
Answer:
31.243 units
Step-by-step explanation:
The mnemonic SOH CAH TOA reminds you of the relationships between sides and angles in a right triangle. Using the attached figure, it is convenient to find the length of BE as an intermediate step in the solution.
Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse
sin(30°) = BE/100
BE = 100·sin(30°)
Then ...
Tan = Opposite/Adjacent
tan(58°) = BE/x
x = BE/tan(58°) = 100·sin(30°)/tan(58°)
x ≈ 31.243 . . . . units
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<em>Comment on the figure</em>
The intermediate problem in creating the figure was to locate point D. That was accomplished by locating point C on a line at an angle of 58° CCW from the horizontal, using point B as a center. Then D is the intersection of BC with the x-axis. BE is drawn perpendicular to the x-axis.
