Question

A blimp provides aerial television views of a soccer game. The television camera sights the stadium at a 12degrees angle of depression. The altitude of the blimp is 400m. What is the​ line-of-sight distance from the television camera to the base of the stadium​? Round to the nearest hundred meters

Answer 1

1900 meters.

Step-by-step explanation:

Angle of depression = 12

Height of Blimp = 400m

Let x be the line of sight distance.

Using trigonometric ratios,

sin(12) = opposite/hypotenuse

sin(12) = 400/x

x = 400/sin(12)

x = 1923.89