A guide wire is 35 feet long and is used to support the top of a tent pole, which is 21 feet tall. What angle does the wire make with the ground? What angle does it make with the top of the pole?What process would I use to solve this equation?

Respuesta :

Here we have to use the trigonometric formula for right-angled triangle.

This is the structure described in the question. We have to find x which is the angle between the wire and the ground.

From the trigonometric formula of right angled triangle we know that

[tex]\sin x=\frac{opposite\text{ side}}{\text{hypotenuse}}[/tex]

So

[tex]\sin x=\frac{21}{35}\Rightarrow\sin x=\frac{3}{5}\Rightarrow x=\sin ^{-1}(\frac{3}{5})\Rightarrow x=36.8642[/tex]

At the top of the pole the wire will make angle with the pole is

[tex]\cos y=\frac{Adjacent}{\text{Hypotenuse}}\Rightarrow\cos y=\frac{21}{35}\Rightarrow y=\cos ^{-1}(\frac{3}{5})\Rightarrow y=53.1301[/tex]

So the wire makes a 53.1301-degree angles with the top of the pole.

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