Matt is trying to measure the height of a tree using
1 answer:
The height of the tree will be 18.35 feet.
<h3>What is a right-angle triangle?</h3>It's a form of a triangle with one 90-degree angle that follows Pythagoras' theorem and can be solved using the trigonometry function.
Matt is trying to measure the height of a tree using trigonometry.
He is having trouble because of the terrain around the tree.
The horizontal distance from the tree to Matt's eyes is 120 feet.
The angle of depression from the horizontal is 30°.
Matt's angle of sight to the top of the tree is 23°.
The diagram is given below.
Let x be the height of tree and AM be h.
The value of (h + x) will be
tan 30° = (x + h) / 120
x + h = 69.288
Then the value of h will be
tan 23° = h / 120
h = 50.94 feet
Then the height of the tree will be
⇒ h + x – h
⇒ 69.29 - 50.94.
⇒ 18.35 feet
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