A retail company is installing a ramp outside its building to make it easier to roll merchandise on carts. If the bottom of the ramp is going to be 22 feet from the base of the door and the ramp needs to go down 4 feet, what is the measure of the angle the ramp makes with the ground?

A retail company is installing a ramp outside its building to make it easier to roll merchandise on carts. If the bottom of the ramp is going to be 22 feet from the base of the door and the ramp needs to go down 4 feet, what is the measure of the angle the ramp makes with the ground?

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merchandise on carts. If the bottom of the ramp is going to be 22 feet from the base
of the door and the ramp needs to go down 4 feet, what is the measure of the angle
the ramp makes with the ground?

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