To approach a runway, a pilot of a small plane must begin a 10 degrees descent starting from a height of 1983 feet. To the neare

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st tenth of a mile , how many miles from the runway is the airplane at the start of it's descent?
Trigonometry

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Marizza181 [45] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-23T11:04:21+03:00

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Tan (10 degrees) = 1983 / distance
distance = 1983 / tan (10 degrees)
distance = 1983 / 0.17633
distance = 11,246 feet

11,246 / 5,280 = 2.13 miles