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kakasveta [241]

3 years ago

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A fire ranger stands atop an observation tower 70 feet above the ground and sees a fire in the distance. She measures the angle

of depression from where she is to the fire and finds it to be 34° How far away from the base of the tower is the fire?

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mrs_skeptik [129]3 years ago

8 0

Answer:

$103.78\:\mathrm{ft}$

Step-by-step explanation:

We can form a right triangle where the distance between the ranger's current position and fire is the hypotenuse of the triangle. In a right triangle, the tangent of an angle is equal to its opposite side divided by the hypotenuse.

Therefore, we have:

$\tan 34^{\circ}=\frac{70}{x}$ , where $x$ is the distance between the base of the tower and the fire.

Solving, we get:

$x=\frac{70}{\tan 34^{\circ}}=103.779267796\approx \boxed{103.78\:\mathrm{ft}}$

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$\displaystyle \lim_{h \to 0} \frac{\sqrt{3} \Delta (\frac{\pi}{3})}{h^2} = \boxed{ 144 \sqrt{3} }$

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