Howard is flying a kite and wants to find its angle of elevation. The string on the kite is 32 meters long and the kite is level with the top of a building that he knows is 28 meters high. To the nearest tenth of a degree, find the angle of elevation.

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Rashad Waters

28 May, 20:58

Howard is flying a kite and wants to find its angle of elevation. The string on the kite is 32 meters long and the kite is level with the top of a building that he knows is 28 meters high. To the nearest tenth of a degree, find the angle of elevation.

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Nathanial Rich · Answer 1

Howard's string, the building's height and Howard's distance from the building form a right angle triangle.

The kite string is the hypotenuse. The height is the perpendicular.

sin∅ = perpendicular / hypotenuse

∅ = sin⁻¹ (28/32)

∅ = 61.0°