Question

Please help me and show all work thank you very much
20 points.

Answer 1

Since the angle of depression is 10 degrees, the interior angle adjacent to the angle of depression is 90-10, or 80 degrees

Since the cosine the adjacent angle divided by the hypotenuse, we can use the cosine to help us solve this question. Divide 500 by the cosine of 80 degrees.


`(500)/(\cos(80)) \approx 2897.4`

This may seem large, but this should be the answer for x. I hope this helps! ;)

Answer 2

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