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Given the hypotenuse and the base ...


-- divide the (base) by the (hypotenuse); get a number less than '1'.

-- the number is the 'cosine' of the elevation angle.

-- either take the cos-1 of the number on a calculator, which is the angle

OR

-- look up the number in a table of cosines and see what angle it represents.

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