Alexa is pushing a construction barrel up a ramp 4 feet long into the back of a truck. She is using a force of 120 pounds in a horizontal direction and the ramp is 45 degrees from the horizontal. How much work is Alexa doing?

Alexa did about 339.41 foot-pound of work in moving the barrel up the ramp.

Step-by-step explanation:

Work done is defined as the dot product of Force and displacement i.e.

W = F.d

Expanding the dot product, we get:

W = Fd cos(Ф)

Here,

W is the amount of work done, F is the Force applied, d is the displacement and Ф is the angle made by Force F with the horizontal. If we observe the given statement we can clearly see that:

Force applied = F = 120 pounds

Displacement = d = 4 feet

Angle of F with horizontal = Ф = 45 degrees

Substituting the values in the formula we get:

W = 120 x 4 x cos(45)

W = 339.41 foot-pound

This means, Alexa did about 339.41 foot-pound of work in moving the barrel up the ramp.

y = 5x + 17

step-by-step explanation:

a perpendicular line will be the opposite reciprocal slope of the given equation.   the slope given is -1/5 so the opposite reciprocal is 5

find b:

7 = 5 (-2) + b

7 = -10 + b

17 = b

write equation

y = 5x + 17

isocolese triangle

we know that the line connect a and b is the hyptonuse

so first find the hypotonuse length using the distance formula, call the length c

since it is an isocolese triangle, the lengths of the legs are the same

using pythagorean theorem,

in this case, a=b since isocolese triangle so we get

or

we can find c so we can find the distances

we know that if we draw 2 circles, each has center at a and b, and find where they intersect, we can the 2 possible locations for c

if a has center at (xa,ya) and b has center at (xb,yb), then we can solve where

and

intersect to find where they intersect

i'm not going to put an example because i have to go to class. i hope this explanation is enough