Two birds sit at the top of two different trees 17.8 feet away from one another. The distance between the first bird and a bird watcher on the ground is 37.4 feet.

Question

anonymous · Answer

What is the angle measure, or angle of depression, between this bird and the bird watcher?

Answer Choices:

 25.5°

64.5°

28.4°

61.6°

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

im thinking its either 28.4 or 61.6

anonymous · Answer

what do you think @qweqwe123123123123111 ?

anonymous · Answer

cos(x) = adj/hyp

x = arccos(cos(x))

anonymous · Answer

@qweqwe123123123123111  is it 28.4 or 61.6?

anonymous · Answer

Heheh...

Hint: It's not 28.4  :-)

anonymous · Answer

so 61.6?(:

anonymous · Answer

I got 61.58, so to 1 place, that's 61.6

anonymous · Answer

@qweqwe123123123123111  yay! haha thanks.

anonymous · Answer

can you help with a couple more?

anonymous · Answer

One more...Nova is on. It looks like it;s about that Russian meteor. I wanna see it.  :-)

anonymous · Answer

Yup. Russian meteor...  :-)