Trigonometry Triangle Problem

By Denise Wang

The Scenario• One day, after the Video Music Awards, an angry Taylor Swift kicked Kanye

West into an enormous pit. Kanye West fell 20 feet deep before he landed on solid ground. He then called Jackie Chan. Chan had OCD, and wanted to know the exact spot where he should lower the ladder he held. After lowering the ladder, the angle of depression made an angle of 56 degrees. At the foot of the ladder stood Kanye. How far was the length that stood between Kanye and the wall of the hole?

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