Use trigonometric ratios to solve the following problem. Shaina, who is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, is standing 20 feet from the base of a tree when she sees a pileated woodpecker at the top of the tree. The bird is at an angle of elevation of 68 degrees above Shaina's line of sight. What is the height of the tree? the answer is not 45.7
We can use the tangent function to solve this problem.
Let x be the height of the tree. We can set up the following equation:
tan(68 degrees) = x / 20 feet
tan(68 degrees) ≈ 2.18
x = 20 feet * 2.18 ≈ 43.6 feet
Therefore, the height of the tree is approximately 43.6 feet.