SOLUTION: Monday night football has a camera 40ft high on a goalpost. If Ted is 180ft from the goalpost, what is the angle of elevation from his feet to the camera? This is 9th grade algebra
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Question 387473: Monday night football has a camera 40ft high on a goalpost. If Ted is 180ft from the goalpost, what is the angle of elevation from his feet to the camera? This is 9th grade algebra Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Monday night football has a camera 40ft high on a goalpost. If Ted is 180ft from the goalpost, what is the angle of elevation from his feet to the camera?
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Draw the figure.
You should have a right triangle
with a base of 180 ft and altitude
of 40 ft.
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the angle = tan^-1(40/180) = 12.53 degrees
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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