Asked by amena
A person is standing on a tower which is 5 m high from his eye sight and is looking at the ball down, the angle of depression is 18°. Find how far is the ball from the tower.
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Answered by
oobleck
Did you draw a diagram?
Now review your basic trig functions, and (if I parse your mangled lanugage correctly) you can see that the distance x from the tower can be found using
x/5 = tan 18°
Now the trig is done -- the rest is just Algebra I
Now review your basic trig functions, and (if I parse your mangled lanugage correctly) you can see that the distance x from the tower can be found using
x/5 = tan 18°
Now the trig is done -- the rest is just Algebra I
Answered by
henry2,
Tan18 = 5/x
X = 15.4 m.
X = 15.4 m.
Answered by
oobleck
dang - saved by henry2
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