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Oluwaseun Adeyemi

ABCD is the floor, by pythagoras

AC2 = 144 + 81 = \(\sqrt{225}\)

AC = 15cm

Height of room is 8m, diagonal of floor is 15m

∴ The cosine of the angle which a diagonal of the room makes with the floor is EC2 = 152

cosine = \(\frac{\text{adj}}{\text{hyp}}\) = \(\frac{15}{17}\)