A weight of 800 pounds is suspended from two cables as shown in the figure. What is the tension in the twocables?

30

50

800pounds

A weight of 800 pounds is suspended from two cables attached to a horizontal bar. The acute angle between the cable on the left and the bar measures 30 degrees. The acute angle between the cable on the right and the bar measures 50 degrees.

What is the tension in the leftcable?

(Round to one decimal place asneeded.)