Question

A blimp provides aerial television views of a football game. The television camera sights the stadium at a 7 degree angle of depression. The altitude of the blimp is 400 m. What is the line-of-sight distance from the television camera to the case of the stadium?

Answer 1

The line-of-sight distance from the television camera to the case of the stadium is x = 3282.20 m

Explanation:

Given data

From Δ ABC

AB = The altitude of the blimp is = 400 m

AC = The line-of-sight distance from the television camera to the case of the stadium = x

Now

`\sin7 = (AB)/(AC)`

`x = (AB)/(\sin7)`

`x = (400)/(\sin7)`

x = 3282.20 m

Therefore the line-of-sight distance from the television camera to the case of the stadium.