Question

A boat is located a sea level. A scuba diver is 80 feet along the surface of the water from the boat and 30 feet below thw water surface. A fish is 20 feet along the horizontal plane from the scuba diver and 10 feet below the scuba diver. What is the slope between the scuba diver and fish?

Answer 1

Given :

A boat is located a sea level. A scuba diver is 80 feet along the surface of the water from the boat and 30 feet below the water surface.

A fish is 20 feet along the horizontal plane from the scuba diver and 10 feet below the scuba diver.

To Find :

The slope between the scuba diver and fish.

Solution :

Horizontal distance between diver and fish is 20 feet.

Fish is 10 feet below the scuba diver.

Slope between scuba diver and fish is :

$tan\ \theta = \dfrac{10}{20}\\\\tan\ \theta = 0.5$

Therefore, the slope between the scuba diver and fish is 0.5 .