Mr. Pratt was building a house. A ladder that is 10 ft. long is leaning against the side of a building. If the angle formed between the ladder and the ground is 65 degrees, how far is the bottom of the ladder from the base of the building? Round to one decimal place.

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to solve this problem, we can use the basic trigonometric functions.

Let's first start to break down the triangle scenario we're given.

Now we know the three angles of the triangle and one side.

We can find the other two sides (or just the base side, in our case), using trigonometric functions such as sin, cos, and tan. We can substitute in their formulas and find lengths based on angle measures.

We know using SOH CAH TOA the relationships between opposites, adjacents, and hypotenuses with these functions. SOH CAH TOA states that:

Using the triangle, we want to find a relationship that has the base we need as an opposite/adjacent that can use the hypotenuse (since it's the only side length we know.

Well, we can take the sin of the 25 degree angle - it's opposite is the base leg and the hypotenuse is 10.

We can then represent this using an equation:

Therefore, the length of the base leg is 4.2 feet

Hope this helped!

answer: sensy

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