SOLUTION: An advertising blimp is floating in the sky while tethered, or tied, with a rope to a building below. The angle of depression from the bottom of the blimp to the top of the busines
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Question 1062227: An advertising blimp is floating in the sky while tethered, or tied, with a rope to a building below. The angle of depression from the bottom of the blimp to the top of the business is 37°. The horizontal distance from the blimp to the business is 4.5 meters. What is the vertical distance from the business to the blimp? Round to the nearest hundredth.
The vertical distance is __________ meters.
Enter your answer as the correct number, rounded to the nearest hundredth, like this: 42.53 Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let x be the vertical distance from blimp to the business
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tangent (37) = x / 4.5
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x = tangent (37) * 4.5 = 3.39 meters
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