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course seems awfully long. In the 2002 Winter Olympics men’s downhill
event in Salt Lake City the course was 3016 m in length with a vertical
drop of 883 m, while the women’s event was 3140 m in length with a
vertical drop of 800 m. I wonder how steep the hill is.
Yumi: Why don’t we try and calculate it! Remember SOH CAH TOA? We can calculate it easily using the sine ratio. Kenji: Carole Montillet of France won the women’s downhill in the 2002 Winter Olympics in a time of 1 minute 39.56 seconds while Fritz Strobl of Austria won the gold medal for the men in a time of 1 minute 39.13 seconds. Yumi: That’s amazing!! I don’t even know if I can even drive that fast. I wonder what their speed is. Kenji: Well, since we know that |
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this should be easy.
