SOLUTION: Can you help me solve this word problem? The ship’s captain located a light an angle of elevation of 65°. The light rest the top a 40 foot lighthouse. Can you draw a diagram to

Question 1152017: Can you help me solve this word problem? The ship’s captain located a light an angle of elevation of 65°. The light rest the top a 40 foot lighthouse. Can you draw a diagram to find the distance from the ship to the shore using the values provided below.
Sin25°= 0.423 Sin65°= 0.906
Cos25°= 0.906 Cos65°=0.423
Tan25°= 0.466 Tan65°= 2.145
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can draw that simple description. If the light on the lighthouse is a distance up, 40 feet, and horizontal distance from base of the lighthouse to the ship is x, then , and you can solve.
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