A 130 foot vertical tower is braced with a cable secured to the top of the tower. The angle between the tower and the hill is 90 °. The cable is secured downhill 60 feet from the base of the tower. Calculate the length of the cable and the angle the cable forms with the ground.

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sorry. If the tower is vertical, and on a hill, it cannot be perpendicular to the hill. Hills do not have a slope of 0.