Question

Imagine that you are standing at the top of a cliff that is 1,500 feet above sea level. You see ship A, and your eyes make an angle of 60° with the ship. Then you see ship B, which is feet beyond ship A. The angle of depression that your eyes make with ship B is

Answer 1

Distance of A from cliff = 1500·arctan(30°) ≅ 723.5 ft

distance of B from cliff = 723.5+1000√3 ≅ 2455.6 ft
tanθ = 2455.6/1500 = 1.637
θ = arctan(1.637) ≅ 58.6°
angle of depression = 90-θ ≅ 30°