SOLUTION: a suryevor is measuring the distance acroos the small lake he has set up his transit on ne side of the lake 80 feet from a pilling that is directly across from a pier on the other

Question 1175415: a suryevor is measuring the distance acroos the small lake he has set up his transit on ne side of the lake 80 feet from a pilling that is directly across from a pier on the other side of the lakefrom his transit the angle between the pilling and the pier is 35

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a surveyor is measuring the distance across the small lake
he has set up his transit on one side of the lake 80 feet from a pilling that is directly across from a pier on the other side of the lake from his transit
the angle between the pilling and the pier is 35
:
This forms a right triangle, The distance across the lake is the side (s) opposite the angle given, side adjacent = 80
Use the tangent of 35
tan(35) =
s = 80 * tan(35)
s = 56 ft across the lake
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