SOLUTION: An airplane aver the Pacific sights an atoll at an angle of depression of 5 degrees. At this time, the horizontal distance from the airplane to the atoll is 4629 meters. What is th
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Question 472864: An airplane aver the Pacific sights an atoll at an angle of depression of 5 degrees. At this time, the horizontal distance from the airplane to the atoll is 4629 meters. What is the height of the plane to the nearest meter?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
tan(5) = h/4269
h = 4269*tan(5)
h =~ 373 meters
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