Question

An observer (O) is located 500 feet from a school (S). The observer notices a bird (B) flying at a 39° angle of elevation from his line of sight. How high is the bird flying over the school?

Answer 1

@Directrix ??

Answer 2

@Yttrium ??

Answer 3

Refer to that right triangle trig ratio chart from last night.

tan(39) = h/500

is the equation you want to solve for h.

Answer 4

Here's that chart for your reference in case you can't locate the one from earlier.

Answer 5

404.892 ?

Answer 6

Yes. Do you round to the nearest integer or hundredth? Or, is that part of the instructions?

Answer 7

no not for this one lol

Answer 8

and thank you c:

Answer 9

You are welcome.

Answer 10

@ganeshie8 hey can you help me.. based on this problem what trigonometric function will not be appropriate to solve for h?

Answer 11

@IMStuck can u help me ^^^^ with that

Answer 12

@paki hi can you help me with this^^^

Answer 13

@ganeshie8 hi can you help me. which trigonometric equation will not be appropriate to find the height of the bird... such as sine cosine and tangent... tangent is appropriate so it is either cosin or sine can you help me choose @paki @IMStuck

Answer 14

@saifoo.khan please help here...

Answer 15

Eazi

Answer 16

@gabs15 : write down the three basic trig ratios.

Answer 17

its sine=opp/adj
cosine= adj/hyp
tangent=opp/adj
@saifoo.khan

Answer 18

Right. Now

Answer 19

sorry sine= opp/hyp

Answer 20

How see the values you have been given and the one you have to find.
You will notice that there is NO hypotenuse in the question.
So we have to use the ratio which has opposite and adjacent sides.

Answer 21

yes that is the correct way to do it.. but i have to find one that is not correct and then explain why @saifoo.khan

Answer 22

@saifoo.khan are you still there?

Answer 23

Yes. Where are you stuck?

Answer 24

finding the incorrect trig ratio and explaining why @saifoo.khan