Question

A fishing boat determines a pod of fish located in the ocean at an angle of depression of 25° from the current boat location. The fishing boat determines the distance through the ocean to the fish is 150 yards. What distance does the boat need to travel on the surface of the ocean to be located directly above the fish? Round to the nearest unit.

Answer 1

Let's draw the situation and see what is the information that we have:

So we have to find the distance x which is the distance that the boat has to travel in order to be located directly above the fish. For this let's use Cosine which is cosine=Adjancent/Hypotenuse

The boat has to travel 136 yards on the surface of the ocean to be located directly above the fish.