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You watch an ant crawl around on a piece of paper. The paper is 10.0 inches from top to bottom and 9.60 inches across. When you first look, the ant is at the top of the paper, in the middle of the page. It crawls around finally leaving the paper at the bottom right corner of the paper.
Using a coordinate system with the origin at the center of the paper, the +x+x direction pointing to the right, and the +y+y direction point to the top of the page, what angle does the line from the origin to the ant's initial location make with the horizontal?
Multiple choice:
- 43.9° above the horizontal
- 45° above the horizontal
- 90° above the horizontal
- 0° (along the horizontal)
- 46.2° above the horizontal
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