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What is the angle of elevation of the player’s line of sight when shooting a free throw to rim of the basket, if the eyes of a basketball player are 6 feet above the ground?
Answer to Problem 46E
Explanation of Solution
Given information: Basketball: The rim of basketball hoop is 10 feet above the ground. The free-throw line is 15 feet from the basket rim.
Calculation:
In soh cah toa use the tangent
But to find the angle use the inverse of tangent in calculator 2nd power tan
Then add the fraction which is toa opposite over adjacent
4 over 15 and hit equal then you would get 14.93 degrees then round to the nearest whole number
Thus,
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