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You are making a banner for your cousin's birthday party. You start by cutting out triangle pieces ofcardstock paper; to not waste paper, you choose to cut the paper diagonally. Each piece of cardstockpaper measures five inches in height with a base of three and a half inches. After cutting, what is theapproximate angle formed at the base of the triangle?
(1 point)
35°
65°
55°
45°

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Treat the paper as a right triangle with opposite side 5 and adjacent side 3.5, so the base angle is arctan(opposite/adjacent):

angle = arctan(5 / 3.5) = arctan(1.4286…) ≈ 55°

Answer: 55°.