You are taking your first hot-air balloon ride. Your friend is standing on level ground,100 feet away from your point of launch, making a video of the terrified look on your rapidly ascending face. How rapidly? At one instant, the angle of elevation from the video camera to your face is 31.7°.One minute later, the angle of elevation is 76.2°.How far did you travel, to the nearest tenth of a foot, during that minute?
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.
You are taking your first hot-air balloon ride. Your friend is standing on level ground,100 feet away from your point of launch, making a video of the terrified look on your rapidly ascending face. How rapidly? At one instant, the angle of elevation from the video camera to your face is 31.7°.One minute later, the angle of elevation is 76.2°.How far did you travel, to the nearest tenth of a foot, during that minute?
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