(8.91 times 10 Superscript 2 Baseline) (3.3 times 10 Superscript 12 Baseline)
1 answer:
Answer:
2.9403×10^15
Step-by-step explanation:
Your calculator can work this out for you.
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The applicable rule of exponents is ...
(10^a)(10^b) = 10^(a+b)
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<em>Additional comments</em>
You can keep a product the same if you divide one factor by 10 and multiply the other factor by 10:
8.91×10² = (8.91/10)(10×10²) = 0.891×10³
I like to "pre-scale" the numbers in a problem like this so that the product comes out in scientific notation with no adjustment needed. That is, the product of the two mantissas is a number between 1 and 10.
Here, you can tell the product of 8.91 and 3.3 will be more than 24, so scaling will be necessary. It is convenient to scale the larger mantissa to be less than 1 so the product comes out less than 10. That is why we made it 0.891×10³.
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The height of the lightning rod is 27.4 feet.
<h2>Why?</h2>To solve the problem, we need to use the given information about the two points of observation, since both are related (both finish and start at the same horizontal distance) we need to write to equations in order to establish a relationship.
So, writing the equations we have:
We know that the angle of elevation from the base of the buildings is 36°
Also, we know that from the same location, the angle of elevation to the top of the lightning rod is 38°.
Using the information we have:
To the top of the building:
To the top of the lightning rod:
Now, isolating we have:
Also, we have that:
Therefore, if we want to calculate the height of the lightning rod, we need to do the following:
Let "x" the distance to the top of the building and "y" the distance to the top of the lightning rod, so:
Rounding to the nearest foot, we have:
Hence, the answer is:
The height of the lightning rod is 27.4 feet.
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