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Seafoam:

An observer (O) is located 400 feet from a building (B). The observer notices a kite (K) flying at a 29° angle of elevation from his line of sight. How high is the kite flying over the building? You must show all work and calculations to receive full credit.

Seafoam:

@snowflake0531

snowflake0531:

heylo

Seafoam:

snowflake0531:

here, we have the opposite side and adjacent side, do you know whcih of the trigonometric equations we can use for this?

Seafoam:

Tangent

snowflake0531:

rightttttttt so how would you set of the equationn

snowflake0531:

tan(theta)=opposite/adjacent

Seafoam:

tan(29)=h / 400

Seafoam:

Maybe?

snowflake0531:

yeppiiiiiiiiiiii

Seafoam:

yaayy

snowflake0531:

so then just put it into a calculator :) 400 (tan29)

Seafoam:

Ohh okk

Seafoam:

Ok so it went like 400 (tan(29)) is that it?

snowflake0531:

yepppppp

Seafoam:

So 221.72

Seafoam:

In feet

snowflake0531:

yes :)

Seafoam:

Yaay thank you so much!

snowflake0531:

:))

Seafoam:

I finally submitted this, its been open for days

snowflake0531:

that's nice

Seafoam:

Now on to suffering with the rest of my assignments, have a great day!

snowflake0531:

ha, me too, i need to do my ela, bye!

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