A ladder 5 feet long leans against a wall and makes an angle of 65% with the ground. a. Find, to the nearest tenth of a foot, the distance from the wall to the base of the ladder.

2.1 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

The ladder forms a right angle triangle with the wall and the ground. The length of the ladder represents the hypotenuse of the right angle triangle. The height from the top of the ladder to the base of the wall represents the opposite side of the right angle triangle.

The distance, d from the bottom of the ladder to the base of the wall represents the adjacent side of the right angle triangle.

To determine the distance, d from the bottom of the ladder to the base of the wall, we would apply we would apply the cosine trigonometric ratio.

Cos θ = adjacent side/hypotenuse. Therefore,

Cos 65 = d/5

d = 5Cos 65 = 5 × 0.4226

d = 2.1 feet

b. an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle

step-by-step explanation:

we are given the figure of two circles having a triangle inside.

now, we know that,

"when a figure is lying inside an another figure, then the outside figure is known as circumscribed figure and the figure lying inside is referred to as the inscribed figure".

as we see that, the circles are containing the triangle completely.

thus, the circles are the circumscribed figures and the triangle is the inscribed figure.

hence, we get, 'an equilateral triangle is inscribed in a circle'.