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A 17 ft ladder leans against the side of a house. The bottom of the ladder is 7 ft away from the side of the house. Find x, the angle of elevation of the ladder.

Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a degree.

help please! :(

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17 would be the hypotenuse and 7 would be adjacent. Using that you would be using cosine to find the answer. The equation should be cosx= 7/17 and would be multiplied by the arc cos on both sides. Cos^-1. I don’t have a calculator and cannot solve fully sorry!
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