SOLUTION: an airplane climbs at an angle of 12 degrees with the ground. find the horizontal distance it has traveled once it has reached an altitude of 500 feet.
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Question 1132611: an airplane climbs at an angle of 12 degrees with the ground. find the horizontal distance it has traveled once it has reached an altitude of 500 feet. Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! this is a right triangle with tan(12)=500/x, where x is the horizontal distance
x=500/tan 12=2352.3 feet.
