A film student wants to capture a shot of a satellite dish placed at the top of a building. The line of sight between the ground

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camera and top of the building is 51 feet, and the angel of the camera with respect to the ground is 43 degrees. What is the height of the building?

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Vlad1618 [11] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-20T06:19:13+03:00

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Answer:

34.78 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

1) using the cosine function, I did cos(43)=x/51

This is because cosine is equal to adjacent over hypotnuse

Once I found x, I used the pythagorean theorem to get 34.78 feet