A 500-foot weather
1 answer:
<h3>Answer: 293 feet</h3>
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Explanation:
See the attached image below. The information that the tower is 500 ft is never used. Focus solely on triangle ABD (ignore point C).
AB = 200
AD = x = unknown
angle ABD = angle B = 47 degrees
Use the cosine rule to help find x
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cos(angle) = adjacent/hypotenuse
cos(B) = AB/BD
cos(47) = 200/x
x*cos(47) = 200
x = 200/cos(47)
x = 293.255837127926
Rounding to the nearest foot, we get 293 feet as the answer.
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