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Let me know if anyone else has any other solutions. I don't think that we had ever solved any problems as a system of equations. I tried doing this problem thoroughly as a substitution, but it got really messy.

Homework Statement A movie set requires a stunt man to jump across a 40m wide river on a motorcycle. The takeoff ramp on one bank of the river is inclined at 53(degrees) above the horizontal and is 100m above the level of the river. If the bank on the far side is 15 m below the top of the...