Finding the Height of a Mountain Use the illustration in Problem 37 to find the height QD of the mountain.
Expert Solution
To determine
To find: The height of the mountain.
Answer to Problem 40AYU
Solution:
feet
Explanation of Solution
Given:
Height of the mountain
To find the length of the span of a proposed ski lift from to , a surveyor measures to be and then walks back a distance of 1000 feet to and measures to be
Formula used:
Calculation:
In the above figure angle and the angle eat is so the angle at will be in the triangle
And from the above solution we know that value
So feet
From the figure we clearly known that is hypotenuse and is opposite side so we can use sin angle to find the value of opposite side
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