Fill in the blank.

A surveyor measures the angle of elevation to a point on a mountain to be 18. The point on the mountain is horizontally 4 miles away from the surveyor. The vertical change in elevation from the point where the surveyor is standing to the point on the mountain is _____ miles. (Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a mile.)

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Fill in the blank.

A surveyor measures the angle of elevation to a point on a mountain to be 18. The point on the mountain is horizontally 4 miles away from the surveyor. The vertical change in elevation from the point where the surveyor is standing to the point on the mountain is _____ miles. (Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a mile.)

anonymous · Answer

okay i got it

yanasidlinskiy · Answer

The term that we are going to use for this is (Tan) because:
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My sketch may be wrong though. But the (definition of tan) is opposite over adjacent.

anonymous · Answer

thats right

yanasidlinskiy · Answer

I was replying. But for some reason it wasn't showing anyways...Do you still want me to help you?