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A kite is flying at a height of 60m above the ground. The string attached to the kite is temporarily tied to a point on the ground. The inclination of the string with the ground is `60^(@)`. Find the length of the string, assuming that there is no slack in the string.

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length of the string `= 40 sqrt( 3)`
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