Homework Help: arithmetic

Posted by zainab on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 3:39am.

2. A person walking along a straight road observed that at two consecutive kilometre stones the angles of elevation of a hill front of him are 40o and 80o respectively. Find the height of the hill.

arithmetic - Reiny, Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 8:15am
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I have A, B, and C on a horizontal line, and H as the top of the hill
Angle A = 40° and angle HBC - 80°, AB = 2 km
In triangle ABH, angle ABH = 100°
then angle AHB = 40°
which makes BH = 2 , (isosceles triangle)
(that was lucky, else I would need the sine law to find BH)

in triangle HBC (right-angled)
sin 80 = HC/2
HC = 2sin80 = 1.97 km

Wow, that is more than just a "hill"

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