## apeterson2310 Group Title A highway makes an angle of 6 degrees with the horizontal. This angle is maintained for a horizontal distance of 5 miles. To the nearest hundredth of a mile, how high does the highway rise in this 5-mile section? Show the steps you use to find the distance. one year ago one year ago

1. AravindG Group Title

Hi there! Welcome to Openstudy :) If you have any doubts on how the site works ,feel free to ask me or any other Ambassador with purple A near them .Have great time here . Check out our COC :http://openstudy.com/code-of-conduct

2. AravindG Group Title

O.K. To your question: Can you try to draw a figure of this problem using the draw button ?

3. apeterson2310 Group Title

there is no figure

4. AravindG Group Title

I mean can you try to draw a figure using given data ?

5. apeterson2310 Group Title

no..... i am not a math person by any means...

6. AravindG Group Title

Oh .. Our site aims at getting to the answer by making the asker participate !We just guide you through the process.. ! It is not that hard to draw a figure for this question .Please try

7. apeterson2310 Group Title

|dw:1364052589237:dw|

8. apeterson2310 Group Title

i guess i have no idea if this would even be right or not

9. AravindG Group Title

Good effort ! Well according to me the fig would be like |dw:1364052983135:dw|

10. AravindG Group Title

we need to find h . We can use the trigonometry here . take tan 6 degree for this triangle

11. apeterson2310 Group Title

i am in geometry 2 not trigonometry....

12. apeterson2310 Group Title

i have no idea what trig is about

13. AravindG Group Title

Oh then I think you need to take approximation $\huge \boxed{\theta =\dfrac{\text{arc length}}{radius}}$

14. AravindG Group Title

here it will be theta =h/5

15. AravindG Group Title

first convert 6 degree to radian measure..then use this formula

16. apeterson2310 Group Title

ok well thank you for trying to help me but you are speaking a foreign language to me....

17. AravindG Group Title

you dont know English ? :/

18. apeterson2310 Group Title

wow that was dumb.... yes i know english i dont understand what you are talking about i.e. foriegn language... figure of speech