I found a picture to represent how sine could be used to find a real life distance. I also used Google Maps to find the distance of one of the legs of the triangle (EF). Since this is 0.9 miles and the sine of 29.85 degrees is about .49, the distance of DE is about .44 miles. I was also able to find the length of the hypotenuse using the Pythagorean Theorem and it came out to be approximately 1 mile. (~AL1)
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