A kite string makes a 43 degree with the ground. The string is staked to a point 104 meters from a point on the ground directly below the kite. Find to the nearest meter the length of the kite string.

x/104 = sec43° = 1.36

What is sec 43

secθ = 1/cosθ

If the very names of the 6 basic trig functions are unfamiliar to you, you have some major catching up to do.

I'm in algebra not geometry that's why I don't know them

To find the length of the kite string, we can use trigonometry.

Let's start by drawing a diagram to visualize the situation.