A woman looks down from a hot air balloon. She sees a sheep below and measures the angle of depression as 35°. If the sheep is 125 ft from where the woman is looking down from the balloon, how high off the ground is the balloon? Round to the nearest foot.

A woman looks down from a hot air balloon. She sees a sheep below and measures the angle of depression as 35°. If the sheep is 125 ft from where the woman is looking down from the balloon, how high off the ground is the balloon? Round to the nearest foot.

Trigonometry (11th Edition)

11th Edition

ISBN:9780134217437

Author:Margaret L. Lial, John Hornsby, David I. Schneider, Callie Daniels

Publisher:Margaret L. Lial, John Hornsby, David I. Schneider, Callie Daniels

Chapter1: Trigonometric Functions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1RE: 1. Give the measures of the complement and the supplement of an angle measuring 35°.

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