3. A contractor plans to install two slides for the children to play in a park. For the children below the age of 5 years, she prefers to have a slide whose top is at a height of 1.5 m, and is inclined at an angle of 30° to the ground, whereas for elder children, she wants to have a steep slide at a height of 3m, and inclined at an angle of 60° to the ground. What should be the length of the slide in each case?
Suppose m is the length of slides for children below 5 years and the length of slides for elders children be m.
Given that,
AF = 1.5 m, BC = 3 m, and
In triangle EAF,
The value of is 3 m.
Similarily in CDB,
the value of is = 2(1.732) = 3.468
Hence the length of the slide for children below 5 yrs. is 3 m and for the elder children is 3.468 m.