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a blimp provides Ariel tv veiws of a tennis match the television is camera sights the stadium at a 14° angle of depression. the altitude of the blimp is 400 meters what is the line of sight distance from the television to the base of a stadium

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Given data:

The given figure is shown.

The expression for sin(θ) is,


\begin{gathered} \sin (14^(\circ))=\frac{400\text{ m}}{H} \\ H=1,653.426\text{ m} \end{gathered}

Thus, the line of sight distance from the television to the base of a stadium​ is 1,653.426 m.

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