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You are looking at the top of a building and thinking it would be great to make a zipline from the top to your current location. You measure the angle of elevation as 37 degrees and you are 123 feet from the base of the building . How long a zipline is needed if you are 6 feet tall ? Include a sketch that shows all known information and clearly shows what you need to find. Show all work and give the answer rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot.

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Answer:

52 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

From the problem, we are given that the angle of elevation as 37 degrees and you are 123 feet from the base of the building. How long a zipline is needed if you are 6 feet tall?

Let us consider a triangle  

A

B

C

in which we have a line from  

A

to  

B

C

with a point named  

D

Given that  

D

C

=

152

foot and  

D

A

B

=

28

,

C

A

B

=

39

.

Now we have to find the height of the flagpole  

A

B

So, from the applying the tangent formula we get,

tan

(

39

)

=

B

C

A

B

A

B

=

(

B

D

+

D

C

)

0.809

A

B

=

(

100

+

D

C

)

(

0.809

)

(

equation 2

)

tan

(

28

)

=

B

D

A

B

A

B

=

100

(

0.531

)

(

equation 1

)

Now, we have two expressions for AB so we we equate both equations 1 and 2,

(

100

+

D

C

)

(

0.809

)

=

100

(

0.531

)

D

C

=

100

(

1.523

1

)

D

C

=

100

(

0.523

)

D

C

=

523

Therefore, the length of the zipline is  

52

feet.

The length of the zipline for the building which you are looking at needed to be 154.01 feet.

What is a trigonometric function?

The domain input value for the six basic trigonometric operations is the angle of a right triangle, and the result is a range of numbers.

The trigonometric function is only valid for the right angle triangle and it is 6 functions which are given as sin cos tan cosec sec cot.

The trigonometric function is very good and useful in real-life problems related to the right-angle triangle.

Given the situation making a right-angle triangle with an angle of 37° and a base is 123 feet.

By trigonometric function

cos37° = 123/zipline

zipline = 123/cos37°

zipline = 154.01 feet

Hence, the zipline which is needed is 154.01 feet.

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