Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
This problem is a good starter for lessons on gradients or the tangent function.
For a similar problem on this topic see Muggles Magic.
Short problems. Rectangles. Tangent. Right angled triangles. Circles. Area. Pythagoras' theorem. Gradients. Graphs. smartphone.
Published November 1999.
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