Homework Help: math

Posted by chelsey on Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 9:01pm.

When a boy pulls his sled with a rope, the rope makes an angle of 70 with the horizontal. If a pull of 16 pounds on the rope is needed to move the sled, what is the horizontal component force?

math - Reiny, Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 9:05pm
looks like
x/16 = cos70º

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