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SVEN [57.7K]
4 years ago
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Suppose a plane coming down for a landing at an airport. The angle of depression is 22 degrees. The plane is 350m from the landi

ng point along the ground. How high is the plane? (round to first decimal place)

Mathematics
1 answer:
Nostrana [21]4 years ago
6 0
See attached diagram.
A right triangle is formed with the 350m adjacent to the 22° angle.
We want to find the height of the triangle, the side opposite.
We can use the tangent ratio (opposite/adjacent) to find this height.
tan(22°) = x/350
Multiply each side by 350
350tan(22°) = x ≈ 141.4 m

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Everything looks good but line 4. You need to put all of the "2h" in parenthesis so the teacher will know you are squaring all of 2h. As you have it right now, you are saying "only square the h, not the 2". Be careful as silly mistakes like this will often cost you points. 

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Part B

It looks like you have the right answer. Though you'll need to use parenthesis to ensure that all of "75t/(2pi)" is under the cube root. I'm assuming you made a typo or forgot to put the parenthesis. 

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2pi*h^2*dh = 25*dt
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Therefore the h(t) function is...
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h(t) = [ (75t)/(2pi) ]^(1/3)

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Part C

Your answer is correct. 
Below is an alternative way to find the same answer

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Plug in the given height; solve for t
h(t) = [ (75t)/(2pi) ]^(1/3)
8 = [ (75t)/(2pi) ]^(1/3)
8^3 = (75t)/(2pi)
512 = (75t)/(2pi)
(75t)/(2pi) = 512
75t = 512*2pi
75t = 1024pi
t = 1024pi/75
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Set up the radius r(t) function 
r = 2*h
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r = 2*[ (75t)/(2pi) ]^(1/3) .... using the answer from part B

Differentiate that r(t) function with respect to t
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Plug in t = 1024pi/75 found earlier above
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dr/dt = (25/pi)*[ (1024pi)/(2pi) ]^(-2/3)
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getting the same answer as before

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Thinking back as I finish up, your method is definitely shorter and more efficient. So I prefer your method, which is effectively this:
r = 2h, dr/dh = 2
dh/dt = (25)/(2pi*h^2) ... from part A
dr/dt = dr/dh*dh/dt ... chain rule
dr/dt = 2*((25)/(2pi*h^2))
dr/dt = ((25)/(pi*h^2))
dr/dt = ((25)/(pi*8^2)) ... plugging in h = 8
dr/dt = (25)/(64pi)
which is what you stated in your screenshot (though I added on the line dr/dt = dr/dh*dh/dt to show the chain rule in action)
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