Question

A photographer points a camera at a window in a nearby building forming an angle of 42 degrees with the camera platform. If the camera is 52m from the building, how high above the platform is the window, to the nearest hundredth of a meter? How would I go about solving this?

Answer 1

\[\tan(422)=\frac{x}{52}\iff x=52\tan(42)\] and a calculator

Answer 2

oops make that \(\tan(42)\)

Answer 3

thank you!