Question

Fill in the blank. A surveyor measures the angle of elevation to a point on a mountain to be 18. The point on the mountain is horizontally 4 miles away from the surveyor. the vertical change in elevation from the point where the surveyor is standing to the point on the mountain is ___ miles. (round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a mile.)

Answer 1

Answer:

This is18° elevation on his clinometer which gives us a right angled triangle whose base is 4 miles and we have to find height.

Step-by-step explanation:

so

tan 18°

=h/4

and

h=4*tan18°

=4*0.3249

=1.299678784 miles

say 1.30 miles ANSWER