Question

Challenge! Ready? The students in Mr. Collin’s class used a surveyor’s measuring device to find the angle from their location to the top of a building. They also measured their distance from the bottom of the building. The diagram shows the angle measure and the distance. To the nearest foot, find the height of the building.

Answer 1

Frank?

Answer 2

Hey my bad
I am trying to figure it out. Just that I am in Geometry but I have not come across questions like these

Answer 3

I see.

Answer 4

yea. I am not sure how to solve it. They give you the angles of the triangle

Answer 5

challenge? no
cheating cause i just did this on my test? Confirmed

Answer 6

GUYS LETS SOLVE THIS TOGETHER

Answer 7

Ice dragon you seem to know what you are doing m8

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okie lol

Answer 9

There we go teamwork

Answer 10

So what should we try to figure out first lel

Answer 11

so mate first of all wits the sine like they taught u in tha book

Answer 12

hint: opposite over hypotenuse

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SohCahToa

Answer 14

But m8 they don't give you a side lenght

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length*

Answer 16

M8 are you there?

Answer 17

so is 100 opposite hypotenuse or adjacent

Answer 18

adjacent no?

Answer 19

wait srry this is tan

Answer 20

let the height = x

then tan72 = x /100

x = 100 tan 72

Answer 21

let me get my handy dandy notebook

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okie

Answer 23

so whats next

Answer 24

you gotta know what sine, cosine, and tangent equal

Answer 25

Square root of 3 no?

Answer 26

so if you plug this into a graphing calculator you get: 308

Answer 27

#nocalculator

Answer 28

remember you have to set the 72 to degrees

Answer 29

I am sorry m8 I literally learned this 2 days ago. Just trying to help as much as I can

Answer 30

aww he left

Answer 31

lollygirl do you get the steps we talked about in the discussion?

Answer 32

Yes. You guys are doing it correct so far.

Answer 33

I get confused with these at times

Answer 34

It's cool. Some one else will come.

Answer 35

Yea my bad about this. Glad I helped

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Oh wait can it be hes back online