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In a mall, a shopper rides up an escalator between floors. At the top of the escalator, the shopper turns right and walks 9.26 m to a store. The magnitude of the shopper's displacement from the bottom of the escalator to the store is 16.0 m. The vertical distance between the floors is 5.40 m. At what angle is the escalator inclined above the horizontal?
Given the magnitude of the shopper's displacement from the bottom of the escalator to the store is 16.0 m.
and the vertical distance between the floors is 5.40 m.
These to distances makes a right triangle along with horizontal distance from bottom of escalator to bottom of vertical distance right below store
16 m is the hypotenuse
5.40m is the height
find length of the base
By Pythagoras theorem
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Now consider right triangle formed in the bottom floor
Given that the shopper turns right and walks 9.26 m to a store.
By Pythagoras theorem
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Consider the side View
Given that the vertical distance between the floors is 5.40 m
Inclination
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