trigonometry warm-up
Geometry
Level
2
A 3 meter long ladder is leaning on a building, if the foot of the ladder makes an angle of 60 degrees with the horizontal, how far is the foot of the ladder from the building in meters?
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1 solution
The ladder is the hypotenuse of a 30,60,90 right triangle. The short leg = 1/2 of the hypotenuse = 1.5. Ed Gray