A sky jumper glides a 30 degrees slope for 80 ft before taking off from a negligibly short horizontal ramp. If the take off speed is 45 ft/s, what is the coefficient of kinetic function on the slide? The correct answer is 0.121

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A sky jumper glides a 30 degrees slope for 80 ft before taking off from a negligibly short horizontal ramp. If the take off speed is 45 ft/s, what is the coefficient of kinetic function on the slide? The correct answer is 0.121
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