A woman standing on a large rock at the edge of a lake is getting ready to swing from a rope that is tied to a branch that hangs over the water. The length of the rope the woman is holding is 8.3 m long. The woman hopes to land in the water at a point that is 15.9 m away from where she stands on the large rock. The angle between the point where the rope is tied and her landing spot in the water is 95°. What is the distance between the the point where the rope is tied and the point where she wants to land to the nearest tenth of a metre.

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A woman standing on a large rock at the edge of a lake is getting ready to swing from a rope that is tied to a branch that hangs over the water. The length of the rope the woman is holding is 8.3 m long. The woman hopes to land in the water at a point that is 15.9 m away from where she stands on the large rock. The angle between the point where the rope is tied and her landing spot in the water is 95°. What is the distance between the the point where the rope is tied and the point where she wants to land to the nearest tenth of a metre.

 

 
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