A surveyor is measuring the distance across a small lake. He has a set up his transit on one side of the lake 120 feet from a piling that is directly across from a pier on the other side of the lake. From his transit, the angle between the piling and the pier is 35 degrees. What is the distance between the piling and the pier to the nearest foot?
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.
A surveyor is measuring the distance across a small lake. He has a set up his transit on one side of the lake 120 feet from a piling that is directly across from a pier on the other side of the lake. From his transit, the
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