Diego is flying his kite one afternoon and notices that he has let out the entire 150 ft of string. The angle his string makes with the ground is 52 degrees. How high is his kite at this time? Round to the nearest hundredth of a foot.

Diego is flying his kite one afternoon and notices that he has let out the entire 150 ft of string. The angle his string makes with the ground is 52 degrees. How high is his kite at this time? Round to the nearest hundredth of a foot.

Algebra: Structure And Method, Book 1

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Chapter11: Rational And Irrational Numbers

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Diego is flying his kite one afternoon and notices that he has let out the entire 150 ft
of string. The angle his string makes with the ground is 52 degrees. How high is his
kite at this time? Round to the nearest hundredth of a foot.

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