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Question from Alan, a parent:

how do I find the angle of an incline with a measurement of 0.042 with an adjacent of 1.2mtrs?. Thank You

Alan,

Is this the situation you have and you want to find the angle t?

diagram

If so then tan(t) = 0.042/1.2 and you can use the inverse tangent function to find t.

Penny

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