Homework Help: math 9

Posted by steph on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 4:02pm.

in a park some people are launching model rockets to find the maximum height,x,the rocket reaches, a person stands 50.0m from the launch sight and measure the angle from the ground to the rocket at its maximum height. if the angle is 36 then the maximum height,x, of rocket is----m

math 9 - Reiny, Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 5:56pm
Did you make a diagram?
Looks like a right-angled triangle to me, where the angle is 36º, the adjacent is 50 and the opposite is h.
tan 36 = h/50

solve for h

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