Question

a child lies on the ground and looks up at the top of a 14-ft tree nearby. the child is 7ft away from the tree, what is the angle of elevation from the child to the top of the tree? round to the nearest whole number??

Answer 1

The side opposite to the angle of elevation is the height of the tree and the side adjacent to it is the distance from the tree to the child. The trigonometric function appropriate for the described situation is,
tan A = opposite / adjacent = 14 ft / 7 ft
The value of A is 63.43 degrees.