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by sanju09 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 12:40 am
For safety, a rigid ladder should be leaned at an angle of about fifteen degrees to the vertical. Therefore, the distance from the foot of the ladder to the wall should be about k times of the height of the top of the ladder. Which of the following is an approximated value of k?
(A) ¼
(B) ½
(C) ¾
(D) 2
(E) 4

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by this_time_i_will » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:25 am
This prob needs value of tan(75) or sin (15).
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by sanju09 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:34 am
this_time_i_will wrote:This prob needs value of tan(75) or sin (15).
approximations need no sophisticated Trigonometry on GMAT
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by this_time_i_will » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:41 am
sanju09 wrote:
this_time_i_will wrote:This prob needs value of tan(75) or sin (15).
approximations need no sophisticated Trigonometry on GMAT
should be B.
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by sanju09 » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:49 am
this_time_i_will wrote:
sanju09 wrote:
this_time_i_will wrote:This prob needs value of tan(75) or sin (15).
approximations need no sophisticated Trigonometry on GMAT
should be B.
approximations need reasons, though
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