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(Note: there are two spherical coordinate system conventions. The one used here is that the angle is on the plane z=0, measured clockwise from the x-axis. The angle is the angle relative to the z-axis.)

Variant #: 6

In spherical coordinates r = 62.22, = 67.5o and = 87.1o. What is y?

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