Embankment 7879
An embankment 7.5 m high should be built on the horizontal plane. The width of the upper surface of the embankment is 2.9 m, and the slope is 35 °. What will be the lower width of the embankment?
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You need to know the following knowledge to solve this word math problem:
- planimetrics
- Pythagorean theorem
- right triangle
- triangle
- trapezoid
- goniometry and trigonometry
- sine
- cosine
- tangent
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