Answer: option A. 30 °.

Explanation:

1) Draw this triangle: Eyes - Ship A - height of the cliff:

The angle of the vertix where the eyes are is: 90° - depreesion angle = 90° - 60° = 30°.

2) opossite leg = horizontal distance to the ship A = x

3) adjacent leg = height of the cliff = 1500 feet

4) tan(30°) = x / 1500 feet => x = 1500 tan(30°) = 1500 √3 / 3 = 500√3

5) Draw the triangle of the eyes - ship B - hieght of the cliff

6) The unknown is the depression angle of the eyes with ship B, α

7) opposite leg = 500√3 feet + 1000√3 feet = 1500√3 feet

8) adjacent leg = height of the cliff = 1500 feet

9) tan(α) = opposite leg / adjacent leg = 1500√3 / 1500 = √3

10) α = arctan(√3) = 60°

11) Depression angle = 90° - 60° = 30° Which is the answer

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a bee flies at 9 feet per second directly to a flower bed from its hive. the bee stays at the flower bed for 15 minutes then fli

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Answer:

Assuming the question is asking how much time it takes each way, the answer would be 2 minutes from the hive to the flowerbed and 3 minutes back.

Assuming the question is the amount of distance between the hive and the flower bed, the answer is 1080 feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

So the total amount of time it was away from the hive was 20 minutes. Out of those 20 minutes, 15 minutes were spent in the flowerbed. So that means travel time was 5 minutes. Now, going is 9 and coming back is 6, so 9+6=15, 5/15=1/3, 1/3*9=3 and 1/3*6=2

Knowing that information, lets solve what the question could be because I have no idea. The amount of distance from the hive to the flower bed is 1080 feet. I got this by doing 9 (the amount of feet per second) times 120 (the amount of seconds in 3 minutes.) You could do this with 6 but I found it easier to multiply 9*120 compared to 6*180.

If it's the commute time, we already solved that.

If I didn't answer the real question, please just comment on this.

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