SOLUTION: Suppose you live 3.6 miles from a hill. From your home you see a plane directly above the hill. Your angle of elevation to the plane is 28 degrees. What is the planes altitude. Tha

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Question 623692: Suppose you live 3.6 miles from a hill. From your home you see a plane directly above the hill. Your angle of elevation to the plane is 28 degrees. What is the planes altitude. Thank you!
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Suppose you live 3.6 miles from a hill. From your home you see a plane directly above the hill. Your angle of elevation to the plane is 28 degrees. What is the planes altitude.
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h = altitude
tan(28) = h/3.6