Answer:
The water is 208.22ft from the tug boat
Step-by-step explanation:
The governing equation is
y is the height above the ocean
x is the distance from the tugboat
if y= 6ft, the equation will now become
we can arrange this properly to form a quadratic equation by grouping like terms.
solving quadratically we have two values of x as 208.22ft and 0.873 ft.
We can take a more realistic value as a solution to our problems:
208.22ft