Miguel drives 220 meters up a hill that makes an angle of 4o with the horizontal ground. To the nearest tenth of a meter, what horizontal distance has he covered? Only round your answer once.

168.5 meters is the horizontal distance covered

Step-by-step explanation:

Here, we simply want to calculate the value of the horizontal distance traveled

This is same as calculating the horizontal component

What we have here will be a right-angled triangle with 220 as the hypotenuse and the horizontal distance as the adjacent

So we make use of cos

cos 40 = x/220

x = 220 cos 40

x = 168.53 meters

To the nearest tenth, this is 168.5 meters

i hope this is what you were looking for.

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graphically?   well, you graph them both, the solutions is where they both intersect each other, since there are two solutions, meaning they will meet twice, or namely the linear will run into the quadratic curve twice, and where they meet, those x,y coordinates are the solutions to the system.