Question

a meteorologist measures the angle of elevation of a weather balloon as 53.  A radio signal from the balloon indicates that it is 1,620 m (line of sight) from the meteorologist’s location.  How high above ground is the weather balloon?

Answer 1

Do you see how I made that triangle?

Answer 2

Ohhh! okay doesnt this involve the cosine and tangent stuff?

Answer 3

Exactly.

sin(53) = x/1620

Answer 4

okay so i do 53/1620? i mean 1620sin53?

Answer 5

i got 1293.7

Answer 6

sin(53) is 4/5.

Answer 7

Yeah, that's right.

Answer 8

thanks!

Answer 9

np!