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PLEASE HELP 1. An escalator lifts people to the second floor of a​ building, 27 ft above the first floor. The escalator rises at a 30degrees angle. To the nearest​ foot, how far does a person travel from the bottom to the top of the​ escalator?

2. A helicopter hovers 650

feet above a small island. The figure shows that the angle of depression from the helicopter to point P is 41 degrees .
  
How far off the​ coast, to the nearest​ foot, is the​ island?

b= - ft

User Nastassja
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sin30=27/d

d=27/sin30

d=54 ft

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tan41=650/x

x=650/tan41

x=748 ft

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