SOLUTION: The angle of a depression from the top of a building height 30m of a car is 41°. Find the distance between the car and the top of the building.

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Question 1078545: The angle of a depression from the top of a building height 30m of a car is 41°. Find the distance between the car and the top of the building.
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The angle of depression is the angle between a horizontal
line through the top of the building and sighting of the car.
I think the assumption is that the bottom of the building
and the car are in the same horizontal plane.
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Let = distance between the car and the top of the building.



m
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check the math


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