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OpenStudy (firejay5):

18. Aerial Television: A blimp is providing aerial television views of a football game. The television camera sights the stadium at a 7 degree angle of depression. The blimp’s altitude is 400 m. What is the line-of-sight distance from the TV camera to the stadium, to the nearest hundred meters?

OpenStudy (firejay5):

I put tan 7 = 400 over x

OpenStudy (firejay5):

@ganeshie8

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

lets draw it out and see

OpenStudy (firejay5):

I don't know how it would look like

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

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ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

thats 7 degree deppression

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

from that point on left

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

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