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An airplane flying at an altitude of 2600m is approaching an airport runaway located 48km away calculate the airplane's angle of descent round your answer to the tenth of a degree?
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An airplane flying at an altitude of 2600m, approaching an airport runaway located 48km away, is descending at an angle of 3.1 degrees, rounded to the nearest tenth of a degree.
Construct a right triangle. Horizontal is 48. Verticle (opposite) is 2.6. Hypoteneuse is 48.07 by pythagorean theorem. The inverse sine of (2.6 / 48.07) is 3.1 degrees.
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