viola drives 170 meters up a hill that makes an angle of 6° with the horizontal. to nearest tenth of a meter, what horizontal distance has she covered?
This is the concept of trigonometry, to get the horizontal length we use the formula: cos θ=(Adjacent)/(hypotenuse) θ=6° adjacent=x hypotenuse=170m thus the value of x will be: x/170=cos6 hence: x=170 cos 6 x=169.06872 meters
