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8-133.
Too Tall Thomas has put Rodney’s book bag on the snack-shack roof. Rodney goes to borrow a ladder from the school custodian. The tallest ladder available is
Draw a right triangle where the wall and the ground are legs and the ladder is the hypotenuse.
Use a trigonometric ratio to find the angle between the ladder and the ground.