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An airplane over the Pacific Ocean sights an atoll at an 7° angle of depression. If the plane is 663 m above the water, how many kilometers is it from a point 663 m directly above the atoll
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An airplane over the Pacific Ocean sights an atoll at an 7° angle of depression. If the plane is 663 m above the water, how many kilometers is it from a point 663 m directly above the atoll

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tangent 7 degrees = 663 / distance

distance = 663 / tan (7)

distance = 663 / 0.12278

distance = 5,400 meters = 5.4 kilometers




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