Answer: OPTION C.
Step-by-step explanation:
Observe the triangle ABC attached.
Notice that the angle of depression is represented with 
.
Knowing that the top of a lighthouse is 260 feet above water and the ship is 270 feet offshore, you can find the value of by using arctangent:
In this case you can identify that:
Therefore, substuting values into , you get that the angle of depression is:
From the equation given, the time for the black mamba snake to cover distance d, will be d/16 while that for the the rought-scaled snake would be d/1.5.
Assume that the distance covered by both snakes is 200 meters;
Then,
Time taken by the black mamba is 200/16 = 12.5 seconds, and
Time taken by the rought-scaled snake is 200/1.5 = 133.33 seconds
Clearly the black mamba is faster at 12.5 seconds compared with the rought-scaled snake.
In fraction is 3/4 and 3/4
Decimal is .75 and .75
