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With determining the horizontal and vertical distances traveled, you

use sine and cosine. To first find the adjacent side or horizontal distance
adjacent
travelled, you will use cos N = . Then when finding the opposite
hypotenuse
opposite
side or vertical distance travelled you will use sin N= . Once you
hypotenuse
know those equations and you know that those equations will help you solve
the problem at hand, you are ready and able to solve and find the distances.
By first plugging in for horizontal distance travelled you will need to
use the equation mention before yet plug in the given information, which will
x
leave you with cos 31.5= . With that you go to your calculator and plug in
100
31.5 and then press the cos button, youll then get 0.85 which you multiply
by 100 and get 85 for the vertical distance travelled. Then youll plug in the
y
information for sine, which is sin 31.5= . Know that you have that you will
100
plug this into a calculator and type in 31.5 and press sin which will get you
0.52 and then youll multiply that all by 100 and get 52. With that you know
52 is the distance travelled vertically.

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