Hi Rob! At about 8:32 in the video, you write the adjacent leg as 6 in the TOA equation. At around 5:50, the adjacent leg is declared as 27 (ft). I'm trying to find the reason that we're using 6 instead of 27, and I can't come up with the rationalization. Would you be willing to review the video and help me determine what I missed?
You know, I just showed this video to my summer school students a few weeks ago, and I noticed the very same mistake you notice! It was frustrating because I never noticed it until now. And it was very much a mistake. You'll note that, later on in the problem, I go back to 27 without even noticing that I'd messed up. I think I'll add an annotation at that point, once I figure out how. Good catch!
Hi Rob!
At about 8:32 in the video, you write the adjacent leg as 6 in the TOA equation. At around 5:50, the adjacent leg is declared as 27 (ft). I'm trying to find the reason that we're using 6 instead of 27, and I can't come up with the rationalization. Would you be willing to review the video and help me determine what I missed?
At 10:45, 27 is used as the multiple in the calculator app, so I'm guessing it was a quick notation error
You know, I just showed this video to my summer school students a few weeks ago, and I noticed the very same mistake you notice! It was frustrating because I never noticed it until now.
And it was very much a mistake. You'll note that, later on in the problem, I go back to 27 without even noticing that I'd messed up.
I think I'll add an annotation at that point, once I figure out how. Good catch!