Problema Solution
A person on a building 108 ft high looked at a bench in a park below. The angle of depression was 24 degrees. How far is the bench from the foot of the building?
Answer provided by our tutors
make a drawing and use the right triangle
let 'd' be the distance that we need to find
108/d = tan (24)
by solving we find
d = 242.57 ft
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