Toby the cat is stuck in a tree. Billys dad placed a ladder 5 ft from the base of the tree and then leaned the ladder against the tree. the top of the ladder is where toby is sitting. if the ladder makes a 65 degree angle with the ground, how far up the tree is the cat?
the leg opposite the 50 degree angle measures 8 meters. find the length of the hypotenuse
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To find out how far up the tree Toby the cat is, we can use trigonometry. We know the angle between the ladder and the ground is 65 degrees, and we also know the distance between the base of the ladder and the tree is 5 feet.
To solve this problem, we can use the trigonometric function called the sine, which relates the lengths of the sides of a right triangle. In this case, the sine of an angle is equal to the ratio of the side opposite the angle to the hypotenuse of the triangle.
In our scenario, the side opposite the angle of 65 degrees is the distance up the tree (which we want to find), and the hypotenuse is the length of the ladder. We can set up the equation like this:
sin(65 degrees) = opposite side / hypotenuse
Now we can plug in the values we know. The hypotenuse is the length of the ladder, which is the distance between the base of the ladder and the top where Toby is sitting. However, we don't have that value given, so we cannot directly find Toby's exact height from the ground.
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