Angles of depression, elevation, trig multistep

Solve for the misssing distance

• 18.9
• 19.5
• 47
• 27.5

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Which scenario describes the picture shown?

• A 5 foot ramp is 8 feet away from a building.  What is the angle that the ramp makes with the ground?
• A 5 foot ramp leans against an 8 foot structure.  What is the angle that the ramp makes with the ground?
• An 8 foot ramp leans
  against a building 5 feet away.  What angle does the ramp make with the ground?
• A 5 foot man is 8 feet away from a building.  What is the angle of elevation?

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Solve for the missing angle.

• 50.5 degrees
• 12.7 degrees
• 36.9 degrees
• 72.2 degrees

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You are on a ship at sea. You see a lighthouse in the distance. You know the lighthouse is 175 feet tall. You measure the angle of elevation to the top of the lighthouse at 5^o. How far are you from the bottom of the lighthouse?

• 2000.3 feet

• 2007.3 feet

• 1997.9 feet

• 2134.8 feet

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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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The angle of 12^o is a(n)

• angle of elevation

• angle of depression

• neither

• both

When the angle of elevation of the sun is 78 degrees, an statue casts a shadow that is 6m long. How far is the top of the statue to the end of its shadow?

• 1.2 m
• 28.9 m
• 6.1 m
• 28.2 m

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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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After traveling 400m from a runway, a plane is 300m above the ground. Calculate its angle of elevation.

• 50
• 0.053
• 36.9
• 95

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