Homework Help: geometry

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 10:17pm.

A scuba diver is at the surface of the water and preparing to swim to a shipwreck. The shipwreck is 20 meters underwater and the diver is 65 meters away from a buoy that shows where the shipwreck lies. At what angle does the diver have to swim to reach the shipwreck to the nearest tenth of a degree?

geometry - Ian, Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 10:22pm
draw it, it always helps

you will see that you need to use Tangent
"Opposite over adjacent"

tan(angle)=65/20

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