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The string of a kite is 100 m long. If the string is in the form of a straight line (there is no slack in the string) and makes an angle of 8° with the level ground such that then find the height of the kite.

Drawing the given situation for a better understanding of the question,



Using the trigonometric ratio,






Therefore, the height of the kite is 53.33m.


(no figure was given in question 5 although the question was based from diagram, had to draw the diagram based on the answer given.)


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