a wheelchair ramp is being bulit for the enterance to a school. If the ramp makes a 4 degree angle with the ground and has horizontal length of 6m, determine the height of the ramp

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To determine the height of the ramp, we can use trigonometry.

The angle of the ramp with the ground is 4 degrees.
We can use the tangent function to calculate the height of the ramp.

tan(4 degrees) = height / 6m

Rearranging the equation, we have:

height = 6m * tan(4 degrees)

Using a calculator, we find:

height ≈ 0.4189m

Therefore, the height of the ramp is approximately 0.4189 meters.