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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

WPP #12: Unit O Concept 10 - Angles of Elevation and Depression



Problems
  1. Farco decided to put a flag vertically on top of his ice-cream building. After having it set up, he wonders how high up is the the tip of the flag from the ground. He stands 5 feet away from the building and at ground level the measure of elevation is 76 degrees. a) How high up is the tip of the flag in the nearest foot?
  2. Farco decides to stand on top of the building, which is 15 ft high, and leans against the flag post. From that view, he sees an army of starving children on the other side of the street in the Pie Store. If the distance of Farco's position to the bottom of the Pie store is radical 62725 away, b) what is the angle of depression from the top of the building to the corner to the nearest hundreth?
Solutions
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