You're building a 12 foot ramp to the entrance of a building 3 feet above the ground. The ADA regulations require the incline of the ramp to be no more than 5 degrees. What is the degree measure of your angle of elevation? Will it fit the requirements? If not, can you think of a way to make it work.

Explanation:

We can assume that:

the 12 foot ramp to the entrance of a building is the base of a right angled triangle and the  3 feet above the ground should be the height above the ground basement. The by using the tangent of a triangle from the knowledge of our trigonometric function; we have:

The degree measure of the angle of elevation is 14.04°

NO, it doesn't fit the requirements.

We can increase the foot ramp to 34 feet instead of being the 12 given value in order to fit the requirements.

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