SOLUTION: You are standing beside the Colorado River, 400 feet from the base of Hoover Dam.
Using an electronic distance measuring device, you find the distance to the top of the dam to be
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Using an electronic distance measuring device, you find the distance to the top of the dam to be
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Question 1199689: You are standing beside the Colorado River, 400 feet from the base of Hoover Dam.
Using an electronic distance measuring device, you find the distance to the top of the dam to be 985 feet.
Found 3 solutions by lil baby2023, josgarithmetic, greenestamps:Answer by lil baby2023(1) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You are standing beside the Colorado River, 400 feet from the base of Hoover Dam.
Using an electronic distance measuring device, you find the distance to the top of the dam to be 985 feet.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! An almost completed written Trigonometry, simple exercise problem. You may wish for the reader to guess what question is to be answered.
(2) 400 feet (presumably directly downstream) from the base of the dam, we need to know how far the elevation changes in those 400 feet in order to be able to solve the problem. It doesn't make sense to assume that 400 feet from the base of the dam the surface of the river is still at the same elevation as the base of the dam.
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