Question: I got this question wrong on a quiz, and I do not understand why. Can you help? Matthew pulls his sister along the horizontal ground

I got this question wrong on a quiz, and I do not understand why. Can you help?

Matthew pulls his sister along the horizontal ground in a wagon. He exerts a force on the wagon of 60.0 N at an angle of 37.0 degrees above the horizontal. If he pulls her a distance of 12.0 m how much work does Matthew do?

I keep getting 185 J but my teacher says it is 290 J.

Can you explain the math/

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