Tree Height Survey with Right Triangle Trigonometry
A surveyor is standing some distance away from a large tree and needs to determine its height using right triangle trigonometry.
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Slide1Section 2 – Right Triangle TrigonometryWord Problems
Slide2a surveyor is standing 50 feet from the base of a large tree. Thesurveyor measures the angle of elevation to the top of the tree as . How tall is the tree? 50 X
Slide3a 40-foot flagpole casts a 30 foot shadow. find the angle ofelevation of the sun. 40 30
Slide4from a point 50 feet away from the entrance to lincoln-Way East,Yugo measured the angle of elevation to the top of the building to be . How tall is the building? 50 X
Slide5pat wanted to measure the height of the flagpole at Lincoln-WayEast. From a point, he measured the angle of elevation of the flagpole to be . He then moved back 15 feet and found the angle of elevation from there to be . How tall is the flagpole? 15 X y
Slide624.955 feet
Slide7a student looks out a second-story window and sees the top of theflagpole at an angle of elevation of . The student is 18 feet above the ground and 50 feet from the flagpole. Find the height of the flagpole. 18 50 X
Slide8from points a and b, 10 feet apart, the angle of elevation of thetop of a tower are and . Find the tower’s height. 10 A B X y
Slide9X = 21.496 feet
