Angle of Elevation

What trigonometric ratio would be used to find the distance from the ship to the plane?

• sine
• cosine
• tangent
• inverse sine

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A tourist views a deer from a height of 45 feet.  The horizontal distance between the tourist and the deer is 130 feet.  At what angle (x) should the tourist hold his camera to photograph the deer? Round your answer to the nearest degree.  

• 19 degrees
• 45 degrees
• 71 degrees
• 138 degrees 

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What trigonometric ratio would be used to find the distance from the ship to the plane?

• sine
• cosine
• tangent
• inverse sine

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CCSS.HSG.SRT.C.8

My dog, Stella, is playing in the park and sees a tree 100 m away.  Since she is the dog of a mathematics teacher, she knows how to calculate the angle of elevation to the top of the tree and finds it to be about 25°.  About how tall is the tree?

• 32 m
• 47 m
• 15 m
• 42 m

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A hawk sitting on a tree branch spots a mouse on the ground 15 feet from the base of the tree.  The hawk swoops down toward the mouse at an angle of 30 degrees. What is the distance from the tree branch to the mouse? 

• 7.5 ft 
• 15 ft 
• 26 ft 
• 30 ft 

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Is the given angle of 70 degrees, an angle of elevation or an angle of depression?

• Angle of Elevation
• Angle of Depression
• Neither
• Both

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A tourist views a deer from a height of 45 feet.  The horizontal distance between the tourist and the deer is 130 feet.  At what angle (x) should the tourist hold his camera to photograph the deer? Round your answer to the nearest degree.  

• 19 degrees
• 45 degrees
• 71 degrees
• 138 degrees 

A building 62 feet tall casts a shadow 21 meters long.  At what angle is the sun shining on the building?

• 19.80
• 18.71
• 70.20
• 71.29

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From a point 340 meters from the base of the Hoover Dam, the angle of elevation to the top of the dam is 33°. Find the height of the dam to the nearest meter. 

• 185.18 meters
• 523.55 meters
• 220.80 meters
• 624.27 meters

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A vertical tower is 20 m high from the horizontal ground. The angle of depression of a ball from the top of the tower is 42°. Calculate the distance, in m, of the ball from the base of the tower

• 18.01 m
• 29.89 m
• 13.38 m
• 22.21 m

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