Question 171545: If you are h feet above hte earth's surface, the distance, d, that you can see is approximately d (in miles)= square root of 3h/2.
Suppose you are on the roof of a building 900 ft. tall. How far can you see?(Calculate to two decimal places.)
Answer by midwood_trail(310)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! If you are h feet above the Earth's surface, the distance, d, that you can see is approximately d (in miles) = square root of 3h/2.
Suppose you are on the roof of a building 900 ft. tall. How far can you see?(Calculate to two decimal places.)
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Let d = 900
Plug into the formula and simplify.
d = sqrt{3h/2}
We are looking for d or the distance you can see.
d = sqrt{3(900)/2}
d = sqrt{2700/2}
d = sqrt{1350}
d = 36.742346
We now round to two decimal places. This means to round to the hundredths place.
So, the distance d that you can see is about 36.74 miles.
Understand?
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