Question

A person flying a kite has released 176m of string . The string makes an angle of 27 degrees with the ground.how high is the kite.how far away is the kite horizontally .answer to the nearest metre.

Answer 1

the answer is 157 m explained in detail above

Answer 2

157m

Explanation:

*see image for diagram

cos 27 =
`(x)/(176m)`

x = 176*cos27

x = 156.8171...