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You want to know how high a hot air balloon is that you see by your house. You use your range finder to see that the hot air balloon is 1000 m
away from you and is at an angle of elavation of 41°. Find the value of height (x) to the nearest meter.

User Kokusho
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Answer:

656 m

Explanation:

I would use trig to solve this. The sin(41) should equal x/1000

which is then 1000*(41) = x

x = 656 m

User Emiliho Stifler
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