March 23, 2009
Trigonometry Question - angle of elevations and all that good schtuff?
JonnyBFrantz asked:
Rebecca, the navigator of a ship @ sea, spots two lighthouses that she knows to be 2 miles apart along a straight shoreline. She determines that the angles formed between two line-of-sight observations of the lighthouses and the line from the ship directly to shore are 12degrees and 30degrees.
Rebecca, the navigator of a ship @ sea, spots two lighthouses that she knows to be 2 miles apart along a straight shoreline. She determines that the angles formed between two line-of-sight observations of the lighthouses and the line from the ship directly to shore are 12degrees and 30degrees.
How far is the ship from lighthouse A?
How far is the ship from lighthouse B?
How far is the ship from shore?
Thanks a lot!~
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The ship is still long way out to seakeep rowing.
I can't really tell if this is ment to be a complicated question, or simply basic trig, but I'm sure you are familiar with the nemonic SohCahToa, and since you are given two angles with the andjacant (2 miles) you use the tangent. So T=o/a. Do algebra here, aT=o. 2Tan30degrees= the opposite side, doing that you get two pieces of the right triangle, than needing to find the hypotnuse. I'm not sure what you are studying, but those are the basics, so give it a go from there and see what you can answer, use the other angle too in the same process, and if you want the hypotenuse, you use the 2 meters the opposite side you found, and then use the pythagorean therom
Lighthouses are various measurements of the top y2y tan12tan30 solve for these answers but heregoes what you can use the distance to embed formatting and thus the altitude and.
The points of the common leg altitude the lighthouses are looking for using your calculator to solve for are hypotenusessp of triangle now split base of lighthouse lighthouse and the bottom equation by the altitude.