John is an Atlanta Hawks fan with seaon tickets for the past 5 years.John estimates that his seat is about 50 ft higher than the basketball court and he has calculated that he looks onto the court at an angle of depression of 20 degrees. How far away is the court from John's seat (length of hypotenuse)?

Answer 1

What is 50*cotangent20 ? I get about 140 feet.

Answer 2

oops, you want the hypotenuse (I gave you the horizontal distance)

Hypotenuse= 50/sin20