SOLUTION: An airplane is flying at a speed of 250 mph at an altitude of 5 miles. The plane passes directly above a radar station at time t = 0. Find the distance s between the plane and the

Question 1190715: An airplane is flying at a speed of 250 mph at an altitude of 5 miles. The plane passes directly above a radar station at time t = 0.
Find the distance s between the plane and the radar station after 5 minutes.
Answer by ikleyn(52787) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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An airplane is flying at a speed of 250 mph at an altitude of 5 miles.
The plane passes directly above a radar station at time t = 0.
Find the distance s between the plane and the radar station after 5 minutes.
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This distance is the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle, one leg of which

is the altitude (5 miles), and the other leg is the horizontal travel distance

of the plane in 5 minutes.


This horizontal distance is   miles = 20.833 miles.


So, the distance from the radar to the plane is  


      d =  = 21.425 miles.    ANSWER

Solved.

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