math word problem a building 240ft tall casts a 100 foot long shadow. If a person stands at the end of the shadow and looks up to the top of the building, what is the angle of the persons eyes to the top of the building(to the nearest hundredth of a degree)?(assume the persons eyes are 5 feet above fground level)
tanØ = (240-5)/100 , remember his eyes are 5 ft above ground
tanØ = 2.35
Ø = 66.9°
Well, well, well, looks like we have a person with a head in the clouds! Let me help you crunch those numbers and bring you back down to earth.
We know that the height of the building is 240 feet and the length of the shadow is 100 feet. So, let's try some shadow puppetry math!
First, we need to figure out the distance between the person and the building. We can do that by using similar triangles. The height of the person (including the 5 feet above ground level) is 245 feet (240 feet + 5 feet). Since the person's shadow is 100 feet, we can set up a proportion:
(person's height) / (person's shadow) = (building's height) / (building's shadow)
245 feet / 100 feet = 240 feet / (building's shadow)
Now, we can solve for the building's shadow:
(245 * building's shadow) / 100 = 240
Cross-multiplying:
245 * building's shadow = 240 * 100
245 * building's shadow = 24,000
Dividing both sides by 245:
building's shadow = 24,000 / 245
Finally, we can determine the angle of the person's eyes by using some trigonometry. The tangent of an angle is equal to the opposite side (building's height) divided by the adjacent side (building's shadow).
tan(angle) = (building's height) / (building's shadow)
tan(angle) = 240 / (24,000 / 245)
tan(angle) = 0.0101667
Now, fire up your calculators and hit the tan-inverse button to find the angle:
angle = tan^(-1)(0.0101667)
After some number crunching, we get...
angle ≈ 0.58 degrees
So, the angle of your person's eyes is approximately 0.58 degrees. But don't worry, they won't need a neck brace after looking up at the building!
To find the angle of the person's eyes to the top of the building, we can use trigonometry and the concept of similar triangles.
Let's denote the height of the building as h = 240 ft, the length of the shadow as s = 100 ft, and the height of the person's eyes above the ground as e = 5 ft.
Using similar triangles, we can set up the following equation:
h / (h + e) = s / s
Simplifying this equation:
h / (h + 5) = 100 / 100
h / (h + 5) = 1
Cross-multiplying the equation:
h = h + 5
Subtracting h from both sides:
0 = 5
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To find the angle of the person's eyes to the top of the building, we can use the concept of trigonometry. We will use the tangent function because we have the length of the opposite side and the adjacent side.
Let's denote the angle we are looking for as θ.
The tangent of an angle θ is equal to the ratio of the opposite side length to the adjacent side length. In this case, the opposite side is the height of the building (240 ft) plus the person's eye level above the ground (5 ft), and the adjacent side is the length of the shadow (100 ft).
So we have:
tan(θ) = (240 + 5) / 100
Simplifying this:
tan(θ) = 245 / 100
Now, we can find the value of θ by taking the inverse tangent (arctan) of both sides:
θ = arctan(245 / 100)
Using a calculator, the value of θ is approximately 68.99 degrees.
Therefore, the angle of the person's eyes to the top of the building is approximately 68.99 degrees.