A child rides a toboggan down a hill that descends at an ang

A child rides a toboggan down a hill that
descends at an angle of 18.0? to the horizontal.
The hill is 47.0 m long.
a) What is the horizontal component of the
child

Solution

The hill is the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
The vertical is 47*sin(18) = 14.52 meters.
The horizontal is 47*cos(18) = 44.7 meters