Homework Help: math

Posted by t on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 6:16pm.

a roofer measured the side of a roof to be 4.8 m long . It rises a height of 3.2 m . at what angle does the roof rise to the nearest degree?

math - Reiny, Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 10:45pm
By side of the roof, I assume you mean the hypotenuse

so sinŲ = 3.2/4.8 = ...
Ų = appr 42°

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