Homework Help: trigonometry

Posted by mae on Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 2:48am.

a ladder which is 5 m long leans against a nail on the wall.it makes an angle of 62 derees with the ground. find the height of the nail above the ground and the distance of the foot of the ladder from the wall.

trigonometry - Damon, Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 3:02am
sin 62 = h/5
cos 62 = d/5

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