From a window 20m above the ground, a person could see the top of the house across the street at an angle of elevation of 5 degr
ees. The angle of depression to the base of the house was 15 degrees. What is the height of the house?
if u can draw an illustration, thanks
if u can draw an illustration, thanks
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Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The distance between the focus and the directrix is the vertical distance from the point to the line:
1 -(-3) = 4
The vertex is half that distance between the point and the line, so is at x=2 and ...
y = (-3 +1)/2 = -1
The vertical scale factor of the quadratic is 1/(4p) where p is the distance from vertex to focus. Here, that distance is 2, so the equation in vertex form is ...
y = (1/(4·2))(x -2)² -1
y = (1/8)(x -2)² -1
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<em>Check</em>
Any point on the parabola is equidistant from the focus and directrix. This is easily checked at the vertex, which is halfway between focus and directrix, and at the points having the same y-value as the focus. Those two points are (-2, 1) and (6, 1), both of which are 4 units from the focus and 4 units from the directrix.
