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Damar is buying a new windsail for his sailboat. The triangular sail is attached between a vertical pole that creates a 90° angle to the boat and a horizontal pole that is attached at the bottom of the vertical pole. If the vertical pole is 22 feet tall and the horizontal pole is 8 feet, what is the angle of the sail that is formed at the top of the vertical pole? Round your answer to the nearest whole degree

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Label the right triangle so the vertical (22 ft) and horizontal (8 ft) are the legs. The angle at the top of the vertical pole has opposite side 8 and adjacent side 22, so

angle = arctan(8/22) = arctan(4/11) ≈ 20°.

Rounded to the nearest degree: 20°.