Two birds sit at the top of two different trees 57.4 feet away from one another. The distance between the second bird and a bird watcher on the ground is 49.6 feet.

What is the angle measure, or angle of depression, between the first bird and the bird watcher?

Question

Two birds sit at the top of two different trees 57.4 feet away from one another. The distance between the second bird and a bird watcher on the ground is 49.6 feet. 

What is the angle measure, or angle of depression, between the first bird and the bird watcher?

anonymous · Answer

30.2°

 59.8°

 40.8°

 49.2°

anonymous · Answer

Please help me, i am so confused!

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

you can make this into two right triangles and use the concepts I described in the last problem you posted (SohCahToa) to solve. You will need to first solve for angle A... you are not given the angle, but you have a hypotenuse and an adjacent leg to work with

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

Now that I look more closely, I think there might be some information missing -- are you sure you provided the entire problem? The height of the trees would make a huge difference here.