SOLUTION: So a surveyor takes a bearing on a marker C and it is 105 degrees. From a point 100 m due south the bearing is 70 degrees. From a scale map where triangle ABC is similar to triangl
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Question 1061921: So a surveyor takes a bearing on a marker C and it is 105 degrees. From a point 100 m due south the bearing is 70 degrees. From a scale map where triangle ABC is similar to triangle A'B'C' the surveyor measures A'B' = 6.7 cm and A'C'= 11 cm. So what is the distance of AC?
I think you use the 100 m and the 6.7 cm to help solve this but I really don't know where to start. Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You need the scale of the map, i.e. so many meters per cm
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then use trig function to solve
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the accepted method to label vertices of a triangle is to start with the leftmost bottom vertex (A or A' in this problem) and proceed clockwise.
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