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Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
The bird has to fly 7.5 m
Step-by-step explanation:
Please see diagram in attached image.
Notice that there is a right angle triangle that defines the situation, and you know two elements of such triangle;
1) one acute angle (
), and
2) the side opposite to that angle.
What you need to find is the side adjacent to the angle, which is what the bird needs to fly horizontally to be above the fish. We named that "x".
The trig function that relates such triangle elements is the tangent:

which rounded to the nearest tenth is: 7.5 m
The shape of the room is not a square.
Pythagorean Theorem: 17^2+17^2= 578, square root 578 and you'll get 24.04.
The length of the diagonal of the floor of the room in the plan should have been 24.04 in order to be a square.