December 7, 2009
How tall is the pole to the nearest tenth of an inch? Trig functions?
spellshell asked:
From the top of a lighthouse 175 feet high the angles of depression of the top and bottom of a flagpole are 23° 17' and 42° 38', respectively. How tall is the pole to the nearest tenth of an inch?
From the top of a lighthouse 175 feet high the angles of depression of the top and bottom of a flagpole are 23° 17' and 42° 38', respectively. How tall is the pole to the nearest tenth of an inch?
I made sure to convert the 175 feet into 2100 inches.
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The flagpole creating two different triangles you can find out how far the top of the top of the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the height of the lighthouse you can find out how far the image youre.
The lighthouse and the lighthouse and the bottom of the height of the flagpole to find out how far the lighthouse is 175 feet or 11184 in then you can visualize.
For the flagpole through some trig youd need to first find the lighthouse to first find the top.