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8 September, 01:27

If a train travels one mile (5,280 feet) while climbing a hill at an angle of five degrees, approximately how many vertical feet has the train climbed?

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  1. 8 September, 01:34
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    to calculate the vertical height multiply the hypotenuse (5280) by the sin of the angle (5)

    5280 x sin (5) = 460.1823

    round off to 460 feet
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