The vertical distance from the jet to the top of the house represents the opposite side to the 'x' angle, while the horizontal distance, d, represents the adjacent side. Since we do not know the hypotenuse, the tangent and cotangent functions are the preferable choices:
Therefore, the distance 'd' can be expressed as d = 2cot(x) or d = 2/tan(x).
We can write the system in the following form: The above system is equivalent to the following equation: Of course, the above system has solution for any values of b since there is one equation and four variable, there is infinite number of solution each time.