Question

She must determine height of the clock tower using a 1.5 m transit instrument (calculations are done 1.5 m above level ground) from a distance 100 m from the tower she found the angle of elevation to be 19 degrees. How high is the clock tower from 1 decimal place?

Answer 1

Explanation:

We can use trigonometry to solve this problem. Let's draw a diagram:

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A - observer (1.5 m above ground)

B - base of the clock tower

C - top of the clock tower

D - intersection of AB and the horizontal ground

E - point on the ground directly below C

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We want to find the height of the clock tower, which is CE. We have the angle of elevation ACD, which is 19 degrees, and the distance AB, which is 100 m. We can use tangent to find CE:

tan(ACD) = CE / AB

tan(19) = CE / 100

CE = 100 * tan(19)

CE ≈ 34.5 m (rounded to 1 decimal place)

Therefore, the height of the clock tower is approximately 34.5 m.