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10 years ago
A hot-air balloon is held at a constant altitude by two ropes that are anchored to the ground. One rope is 120 ft long and makes an angle of 65 degrees with the ground. The other rope is 115 ft long. What is the distance between the points on the ground at which the two ropes are anchored? Round the distance to the nearest foot. Round any computed angle to the nearest degree.
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10 years ago
This is not a physics problem; it is just a simple trig problem.  

Make a drawing and you will see that you are given two sides of a triangle and one angle, and you need to find the third side -- so use law of sines/law of cosines.  

The rest is just math.
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