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Angle of Elevation and Depression

This document contains 7 problems involving calculating distances and angles of elevation/depression. The problems apply trigonometric concepts like tangent, opposite/adjacent ratios to determine unknown distances or heights given known angles of elevation/depression and one other piece of distance information for each scenario.

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Angle of Elevation and Depression

This document contains 7 problems involving calculating distances and angles of elevation/depression. The problems apply trigonometric concepts like tangent, opposite/adjacent ratios to determine unknown distances or heights given known angles of elevation/depression and one other piece of distance information for each scenario.

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1.

A kite flying 25m high


above ground. The
length of its string is
50m. What is its angle of
elevation?
2. The NASA recovery
helicopter hovers 75ft above
the space capsule. The angle
of depression to the recovery
ship is 40°. How far is the
ship form the space capsule?
3. An airplane pilots a life
raft at a 26° angle of
depression. The airplanes
altitude is 3 km. What is the
airplanes surface distance (d)
from the craft?
4. From the lighthouse
120m above the sea, the
angle of depression of a
boat is 15°. How far is the
boat from the lighthouse?
5. A building is 50 feet high. At a
distance away from the building
an observer notices that the angle
of elevation to the top of the
building is 41°. To the nearest
foot how far is the observer from
the base of the building?
6. An observer on top of a
hill measures an angle of
depression of 68° when
looking at a truck parked in
the valley below. If the truck
is 55 ft from the base of the
hill, how high is the hill?
7. You sight a rock climber
on a cliff at a 32° angle of
elevation. The horizontal
ground distance to the cliff is
1000 ft. Find the line of sight
distance to the rock climber?

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