The given question describes a right triangle with with one of the angles as 20 degrees and the side adjacent to the angle 20 degrees is of length 5,000 feet. We are looking for the length of the side opposite the angle 20 degrees.
Let the required length be x, then
Therefore, the height of the airplane above the tower is 1,819.85 feet.
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Answer:
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Step-by-step explanation:
Most of this exercise is looking at different ways to identify the slope of the line. The first attachment shows the corresponding "run" (horizontal change) and "rise" (vertical change) between the marked points.
In your diagram, these values (run=1, rise=-3) are filled in 3 places. At the top, the changes are described in words. On the left, they are described as "rise" and "run" with numbers. At the bottom left, these same numbers are described by ∆y and ∆x.
The calculation at the right shows the differences between y (numerator) and x (denominator) coordinates. This is how you compute the slope from the coordinates of two points.
If you draw a line through the two points, you find it intersects the y-axis at y=4. This is the y-intercept that gets filled in at the bottom. (The y-intercept here is 1 left and 3 up from the point (1, 1).)
