Yvette and Zach are hiking the same trail and both see a mountain in the distance ahead of them. Yvette measures that, from ground level, there is an angle of 35 to the peak of from ground the mountain. Zach is 1,053 feet ahead of Yvette on the trail and measures, level, there is an angle of 48 to the peak of the mountain. To the nearest foot, how tall is the mountain?

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Q: How many miles (1 mile = 5280 feet) is the aircraft from the airport? Round the answer to the…

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Q: I am standing 50 feet away from the flagpole outside of Southmith High School. I look up to the top…

A: I am standing 50 feet away from the flagpole outside of Southmith High School. I look up to the top…

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Q: A baseball player wants to hit a baseball over the fence. The fence is 25 feet tall. The baseball…

A: Given,         A baseball player wants to hit a baseball over the fence. The fence is 25 feet tall.…

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A: What would be the measure of angles used after B rad rotates the shelf 180 degreescounter clockwise…

Q: Sarah measured her height and she was 4.5 feet tall. Sarah measured her shadow and it was 9 feet…

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Q: In Exercises 1 and 2, the triangles a 1. TREES How tall is the tree? hm I. 0.45 m 0.3 m 2.2 m

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Q: A section of the giant slide at an amusement park is shown below. Two vertical posts support the…

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Q: You are standing on a boat that is 150 feet from a cliff. If you look up at a 35 degree angle you…

A: Solution: The objective is to find the height of the cliff

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A: Given: To find the correct equation.

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A: We Use tan(x) formula for solving this problem. tanx = opposite side/ Adjacent side.

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.