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In this question, you are asked to comment on a student's attempt at answering the question detailed below. Read the question and the student's incorrect attempt first, then answer the questions below. The Question Ronan is building an extension to his house to facilitate a social space and games room. One of his passions is watching sport on a big screen, so he has purchased a wide-lens home cinema projector that he can connect to his laptop, instead of buying a large-screen TV. Having read the manufacturer's guide extensively, and researched his options on the internet for optimising picture quality, he decides that he would like to have a viewing area equivalent to having a 120-inch TV mounted on the wall. This means that the width of the viewing area will be 108 inches. The projector has a wide lens that covers an angle of 72°. He needs to position the projector centrally with respect to the viewing area, on a stand that you may assume is at the correct height for optimum picture quality. Ronan sketches the situation in Figure 7, where all lengths are measured in inches. The point P represents the projector's position on the stand. Points A and B are the furthest reaches of the viewing area (the width). The point C is the centre point of the screen's width, directly in front of the projector. The length of PA is equal to the length of PB. Angle APB is 72°, so angle APC is 36°. 108 36 Figure 7 Assuming that all aspects of picture quality are satisfactory, how far from centre point C should the projector be placed in order to fill the full screen width of 108 inches?

In this question, you are asked to comment on a student's attempt at answering the question detailed below. Read the question and the student's incorrect attempt first, then answer the questions below. The Question Ronan is building an extension to his house to facilitate a social space and games room. One of his passions is watching sport on a big screen, so he has purchased a wide-lens home cinema projector that he can connect to his laptop, instead of buying a large-screen TV. Having read the manufacturer's guide extensively, and researched his options on the internet for optimising picture quality, he decides that he would like to have a viewing area equivalent to having a 120-inch TV mounted on the wall. This means that the width of the viewing area will be 108 inches. The projector has a wide lens that covers an angle of 72°. He needs to position the projector centrally with respect to the viewing area, on a stand that you may assume is at the correct height for optimum picture quality. Ronan sketches the situation in Figure 7, where all lengths are measured in inches. The point P represents the projector's position on the stand. Points A and B are the furthest reaches of the viewing area (the width). The point C is the centre point of the screen's width, directly in front of the projector. The length of PA is equal to the length of PB. Angle APB is 72°, so angle APC is 36°. 108 36 Figure 7 Assuming that all aspects of picture quality are satisfactory, how far from centre point C should the projector be placed in order to fill the full screen width of 108 inches?

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Advanced Engineering Mathematics
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ISBN:9780470458365
Author:Erwin Kreyszig
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In this question, you are asked to comment on a student's attempt at answering the question detailed below. Read the question and the student's incorrect attempt first, then answer the questions below. The Question Ronan is building an extension to his house to facilitate a social space and games room. One of his passions is watching sport on a big screen, so he has purchased a wide-lens home cinema projector that he can connect to his laptop, instead of buying a large-screen TV. Having read the manufacturer's guide extensively, and researched his options on the internet for optimising picture quality, he decides that he would like to have a viewing area equivalent to having a 120-inch TV mounted on the wall. This means that the width of the viewing area will be 108 inches. The projector has a wide lens that covers an angle of 72°. He needs to position the projector centrally with respect to the viewing area, on a stand that you may assume is at the correct height for optimum picture quality. Ronan sketches the situation in Figure 7, where all lengths are measured in inches. The point P represents the projector's position on the stand. Points A and B are the furthest reaches of the viewing area (the width). The point C is the centre point of the screen's width, directly in front of the projector. The length of PA is equal to the length of PB. Angle APB is 72°, so angle APC is 36°. 108 B 36 Figure 7 Assuming that all aspects of picture quality are satisfactory, how far from centre point C should the projector be placed in order to fill the full screen width of 108 inches?
Transcribed Image Text:In this question, you are asked to comment on a student's attempt at answering the question detailed below. Read the question and the student's incorrect attempt first, then answer the questions below. The Question Ronan is building an extension to his house to facilitate a social space and games room. One of his passions is watching sport on a big screen, so he has purchased a wide-lens home cinema projector that he can connect to his laptop, instead of buying a large-screen TV. Having read the manufacturer's guide extensively, and researched his options on the internet for optimising picture quality, he decides that he would like to have a viewing area equivalent to having a 120-inch TV mounted on the wall. This means that the width of the viewing area will be 108 inches. The projector has a wide lens that covers an angle of 72°. He needs to position the projector centrally with respect to the viewing area, on a stand that you may assume is at the correct height for optimum picture quality. Ronan sketches the situation in Figure 7, where all lengths are measured in inches. The point P represents the projector's position on the stand. Points A and B are the furthest reaches of the viewing area (the width). The point C is the centre point of the screen's width, directly in front of the projector. The length of PA is equal to the length of PB. Angle APB is 72°, so angle APC is 36°. 108 B 36 Figure 7 Assuming that all aspects of picture quality are satisfactory, how far from centre point C should the projector be placed in order to fill the full screen width of 108 inches?
The student's incorrect attempt we first calculate the angle at A, using the fact that all three anales in a triangle add up to 180°. we have A = 180- (90 +36) = 5+, so the anale at A is 54°. Using the Sine Rule in trianale ABP, we have a sinA sinP So a sinP x sinA 108 x sin S4° sin 12° = 9181.... So the lensth of BP is 92 inches (to the nearest inch) The lensth of BP is the same as the leneth of AP, and trianale ACP is right-angled, so we have cos 36 adj. 92 hyp So 92 CP = = 13.1.... cos 36° Therefore to the nearest inch, the projector should Be placed t inches away from the centre of the viewinG area.
Transcribed Image Text:The student's incorrect attempt we first calculate the angle at A, using the fact that all three anales in a triangle add up to 180°. we have A = 180- (90 +36) = 5+, so the anale at A is 54°. Using the Sine Rule in trianale ABP, we have a sinA sinP So a sinP x sinA 108 x sin S4° sin 12° = 9181.... So the lensth of BP is 92 inches (to the nearest inch) The lensth of BP is the same as the leneth of AP, and trianale ACP is right-angled, so we have cos 36 adj. 92 hyp So 92 CP = = 13.1.... cos 36° Therefore to the nearest inch, the projector should Be placed t inches away from the centre of the viewinG area.
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