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a bridge is 10 meters above the original ground n assumed to be level. How far from the end of the bridge, an approach starts, if the approach is to have a 10 percent grade?

from the top of a cliff 126m high, the angle of depression of a boat is 20.7deg. how far is the boat from the foot of the cliff?

the L and C State building is 1,250 m tall. What is the angle of elevation of the top from a point on the ground 1,760 m from the base of the building?

a tugboat is 36km due north of lighthouse C. Lighthouse B is directly east of lighthouse C. The lighthouses are 53km apart. Find the bearing og lighthouse B from the tugboat and the distance of lighthouse B from the tugboat.

Scientist estimate the heights of features on the moon by measuring the lenghts of the shadows they cast on the moon's surface. From a photograph, you find that the shadow cast on the inside of a crater by its rim is 325 meters long. At the time the photo...

A block bordering Sapphire Street is a right triangle. You start walking around the block, taking 125 paces on Sapphire Street and 102 paces on Diamond Street. a. At what angle do Diamond and Sapphire Streets intersect? b. How many paces must you take on...

Points A and B are on the same horizontal line from the foot of a hill and the angles of depression of these points from the top of the hill are 30deg and 22deg, respectively. If the distance between A and B is 75m, what is the height of the hill?

The pilot of an airplane left A and flew 200 miles in the direction S 20deg20mins W. He then turned and flew 148 miles in the direction S 69deg40mins E. If he now heads back to A, in what direction should he fly?

A space shuttle pilot flying toward the Suez Canal finds that the angle of depression on one end of the canal is 38.25deg and the angle of depression to the other end is 52.75deg. If the canal is 100.6 mi long, find the altitude of the space shuttle.

A submarine at the surface of the ocean makes an emergency dive, its path making an angle of 21deg with the surface. a. If it goes for 300 meters along its download path, how deep will it be? What horizontal distance is it from its starting point? b. How...

An observer at A looks due north and sees a meteor with an angle of elevation of 70deg. At the same instant, another observer 30 miles east of A, sees the same meteor and approximates its position as N 50deg W but fails to note its angle of elevation. Fin...

Because of the wind, a boat sails 4,728 meters in the direction S 47deg29mins W. How far south it goes? How far west has it gone?

Two points, A and B, are 526 meters apart on a level stretch of road leading to a hill. The angle of elevation of the hilltop from A is 26deg30mins, and the angle of elevation from B is 36deg40mins. How high is the hill?