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BeckyStar678
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Homework Statement
a snow-covered ski slope makes an angle of 35 degrees with the horizontal. when a ski jumper plummets onto the hill, a parcel of splashed snow projects to a maximum position of 5 m at 20 degrees from the vertical in the uphill direction. find the components of its maximum position a.) parallel to the surface and b.) perpendicular to the surface.
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The Attempt at a Solution
would i just use a triangle with 20 degrees and 5 meters as the hypotenuse. then find the other two sides using trig and those two sides i find are the parallel and perpendicular sides
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