Posted by Janae on Monday, March 2, 2009 at 1:01pm.
ignoring the 'sag' in the line, ...
sin 57 = (height+3)/300
height + 3 = 300sin57
height = .....
oops make that
height = (300sin57) + 3
so the answer is about 248.6 ft
what i was doing wrong was I wasn't thinking about adding the three which had my answer off
so the real answer is about 254.6
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