Homework Help: trigonometric problem

Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 6:28am.

Point A and B are on the same horizontal line with the foot of a hill and the angles of depression of these points from the top of hill are 32° and 22° respectively. If the distance between A and B is 80 meters, what is the height of the hill?

trigonometric problem - Mac, Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 7:10am
Tan32=h/x
Tan22=h/(x+80)

(Tan32)(x)=(tan22)(x+80)
Solve for x and then for h

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