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A plane takes off at an angle of elevation of 15 and travels in a straight line for 3,000 meters. What is the height of the plane above the ground at this instant?
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A plane takes off at an angle of elevation of 15 and travels in a straight line for 3,000 meters. What is the height of the plane above the ground at this instant?
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A plane takes off at an angle of elevation of 15 and travels in a straight line for 3,000 meters. What is the height of the plane above the ground at this instant?
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That's a right triangle with hypotenuse 3000 and the height y is the side opposite the elevation angle of 15 degrees.
We can actually compute
exactly but I won't bother.
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