Question

you are standing, on the horizontal ground, __ feet from the base of a cliff. Admiring your surroundings, you nite that the angle of elevation to the top of the cliff to be __ degrees. If realistic limits are imposed on your choices, what would be a reasonable distance from the cliff? What would be a reasonable angle if elevation? Explain.

Answer 1

If realistic limits are imposed on the choices I would go with 1000 ft. For the angle of elevation I would chose 34°. This because as we know an angle of elevation is the angle between the observer's’ line of sight and a horizontal line when the observer looks upward.

If you wanted to find the height of the cliff you would use the following:

Tan34 = x/1000

x = tan(34)*1000

x = 674.51 ft.

I hope this helps, Regards.