A highway makes an angle of 6° with the horizontal. This angle is maintained for a horizontal distance of 8 miles.
a.
Draw and label a diagram to represent this situation.
b.
To the nearest hundredth of a mile, how high does the highway rise in this 8-mile
section? Show the steps you use to find the distance.

Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?