A 300 foot tall monument is located in the distance. From a window in a building a person determines that the angle of elevation to the top of the monument is 18 degrees and the angle of depression to the bottom of the tower is 3 degrees. How far is the person from the monument?
Ratios
A ratio is a comparison between two numbers of the same kind. It represents how many times one number contains another. It also represents how small or large one number is compared to the other.
Trigonometric Ratios
Trigonometric ratios give values of trigonometric functions. It always deals with triangles that have one angle measuring 90 degrees. These triangles are right-angled. We take the ratio of sides of these triangles.
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