Question

A student can see a water tower from the closest point of the soccer field the edge of the soccer field is about 110 feet from the water tower stands at a height of 32.5 feet. What is the angle of elevation if the eye level of the student viewing the tower from the edge of the soccer field is 6 feet above the ground? Round to the nearest tenth

Answer 1

The answer is roughly 13.5°.

You can find this answer by creating a right triangle in which the opposite side is 26.5ft (the height of the tower minus the height of the student) and the adjacent side is 110ft. Then you can use an inverse tangent function and the fraction 26.5/110 (opposite over adjacent) to get the answer.