SOLUTION: An engineer on the ground is looking at the top of a building. The angle of elevation to the top of a building is 38°. The engineer knows the building is 300 ft tall. What is the
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Question 881088: An engineer on the ground is looking at the top of a building. The angle of elevation to the top of a building is 38°. The engineer knows the building is 300 ft tall. What is the distance from the engineer to the base of the building to the nearest whole foot? Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! An engineer on the ground is looking at the top of a building.
The angle of elevation to the top of a building is 38°.
The engineer knows the building is 300 ft tall.
What is the distance from the engineer to the base of the building to the nearest whole foot?
:
let d = dist to the building
Use the tangent of the angle of 38, where side op = 300; side adjacent = d
tan(38) =
.7813 =
mult by both sides by d
.7813d = 300
d =
d = 384 ft
