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A silo is 40 feet high and 16 feet across. find the angle of depression from the top edge to floor. How do you solve this?
14 years ago

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Answered by Reiny
If you draw a cross section , would you not have a right-angled triangle with base of 16 and height of 40?

Should be very simple after that.

(I got 68.2°)
14 years ago

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