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marshall27 [118]
3 years ago
14

You are standing on the second floor balcony looking down at a car 50 feet away. Your line of sight is 15 feet above the ground.

What is the angle of depression to the nearest tenth of a degree?

Mathematics
1 answer:
fgiga [73]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

  • 16.7°

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the angle is x

Imagine the right triangle with the angle x, with side opposite to angle x 15 ft and the adjacent side is 50 ft.

<u>Use trigonometry:</u>

  • tangent = opposite / adjacent
  • tan x = 15/50
  • tan x = 0.3
  • x = arctan 0.3
  • x = 16.7° (rounded)
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