Two contestants on the reality show, Naked and Afraid, were looking for safe ground to make a shelter. They reach the top of a ridge and look down at the trail behind them. In the distance, they can see where they were dropped off by producers. By using a small device called a clinometer, they're able to measure the angle between their horizontal line of sight and the dropoff point as 37° and they know that the hill they just hiked up has a height of 300 yards. How far away have they travelled?

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Ratios

A ratio is a comparison between two numbers of the same kind. It represents how many times one number contains another. It also represents how small or large one number is compared to the other.

Trigonometric Ratios

Trigonometric ratios give values of trigonometric functions. It always deals with triangles that have one angle measuring 90 degrees. These triangles are right-angled. We take the ratio of sides of these triangles.