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Q: A 7-ft ladder leans against the side of a house. How far is the bottom of the ladder from the house…
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Q: The top of a lighthouse, T, is 215 feet above sea level, L, as shown in the diagram below. The angle…
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Q: From the top of a 72-m lighthouse, the angle of depression to a ship in the ocean is 21°. How far is…
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Q: A communications tower is located at the top of a steep hill, as shown. The angle of inclination of…
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Q: A radio tower is located 500 feet from a building. From a window in the building, a person…
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Q: A man standing on the roof of a building 60.0 feet high looks down to the building next door. He…
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Q: Zaidah is flying a kite at an angle of elevation of 67° from a point on the ground. If 100 ft of…
A: Here the angle of elevation from the ground is 67∘
Q: Jeriel leans a 26-foot ladder against a wall so that it forms an angle of 61° with the ground.…
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Q: A communication tower is located at the top of a steephill, as shown. The angle of inclination of…
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Q: The angle of depression from the top of a tower to a boulder on the ground is 60°. If the tower is…
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Q: From the top of the CN tower, the angle of depression to the tip of the tower's shadow is 88°. The…
A: From the top of the CN tower, the angle of depression to the tip of the tower's shadow is 88°. The…
Q: You are standing on a 12 foot high diving board looking down at your friend across the pool. The…
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Q: A radio tower is located 275 feet from a building. From a window in the building, a person…
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Q: The angle of depression from the top of a cliff to a hiker below is 35°. If the cliff is 550 feet…
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Q: E. From the top of a 250 ft lighthouse, then angle of depression to a ship in the ocean is 18. How…
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Q: A radio tower is located 425 feet from a building. From a window in the building, a person…
A: ∴Height of tower is x+yAM=425 ftIn ∆ADM ;tan40°=x425x=425 x tan 40°∴x=356.617 ft
Q: From the top of a 200 foot lighthouse, the angle of depression to a ship in the ocean is 13°. How…
A: Given vertical height of lighthouse is 200 foot. Angle of depression is 13° . To find the horizontal…
Q: From the top of a 200 foot lighthouse, the angle of depression to a ship in the ocean is 13°. How…
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Q: A radio tower is located 325 feet from a building. From a window in the building, a person…
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Q: One end of a ramp is raised and set on the back of a truck. The back of the truck is 1 meter off the…
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Q: A straight kite string makes an angle of 40° with the ground, as shown in the diagram. If y = 210…
A: Let x be the height of the kite from ground. From the given figure it can be seen that sin40°=xy.
Q: From the top of a lighthouse 60 feet above sea level, the angle of depression to a small boat is…
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Q: Jeriel leans a 26-foot ladder against a wall so that it forms an angle of 61° ground. What's the…
A: Given query is to find the distance between base of the ladder and the wall.
Q: When an airplane is descending to land, the angle of depression is 5°. When the plane has a reading…
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Q: A radio tower is located 300 feet from a building. From a window in the building, a person…
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Q: A ship's sonar finds that the angle of depression to a wreck on the bottom of the ocean is 12.5º. If…
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Q: A 7-ft ladder leans against the side of a house. How far is the bottom of the ladder from the side…
A: Angle of elevation of ladder =64∘ Here we will apply cosine formula which is given as-…
Q: A kite is flying 78 ft off the ground, and its string is pulled taut. The angle of elevation of the…
A: NOTE: Refresh your page if you can't see any equations. . here we have AB=78 C=51
Q: A daredevil gymnast has attached a rope from the ground to the top of a 54 foot building at an angle…
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Q: A man standing near a building notices that the angle of elevation to the top of the building is…
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Q: A radio tower is located 300 feet from a building. From a window in the building, a person…
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Q: From the top of a cliff, 108m high, the angle of depression to a boat on the water is 8°. Determine…
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Q: A side of the triangle below has been extended to form an exterior angle of 71°. Find the value of…
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Q: From the top of a cliff that is 70 m in height, the angle of depression of a sailboat on a lake is…
A: Solution: The objective is to find the distance from the base of the cliff to the sailboat.
Q: A ship's sonar finds that the angle of depression to a wreck on the bottom of the ocean is 15.2. If…
A: Given that ship's sonar finds the angle of depression to a wreck on the bottom of the ocean is 15.2…
Q: A straight kite string makes an angle of 40° with the ground, as shown in the diagram. If y = 240…
A: y=240 ft θ=40o from right angle triangle sinθ=perpendicularhypotenuse
Q: The angle of elevation from an anchor to the top of a flag pole is 20°. If the pole is 10 meters…
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Q: A 16 foot ladder leaning against a wall of a house makes a 50° angle with the ground. How far up the…
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Q: A radio tower is located 375 feet from a building. From a window in the building, a person…
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Q: The top of a signal tower is 135 meters above sea level. The angle of depression from the top of the…
A: Given, The top of the signal tower is 135 meters above sea level. The angle of depression from the…
Q: A man standing near a building notices that the angle of elevation to the top of the building is…
A: PO=length of building =xAO=y,AB=240,BO=240+Yfrom ∆POA, tan(680)=xy⇒2.47=xy⇒y=x2.47....(i)in…
Q: From the top of a fire tower, a forest ranger sees his partner on the ground at an angle of…
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Q: Kristen is swimming in the ocean and notices a coral reef below her. The angle of depression is 35…
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Q: The base of the ladder in the figure is a = 7 ft from the building, and the angle formed by the…
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Q: A communications tower is located at the top of a steep hill, as shown. The angle of inclination of…
A: Use the law of sines asin A=bsin B=csin C.
Q: A ladder is leaning against a 3.4 m tall building at an angle of elevation of 50°. Determine the…
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Q: A woman entering an outside glass elevator on the ground floor of a hotel glances up to the top of…
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Q: A ship receives sonar reflections at an angle of depression of 31° from a submarine 27 km above the…
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