Stacy is watching an airplane that is 6 miles away from her and 4 miles above the ground. how many degrees above the horizontal must she look up to see the plane?

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Essence Forbes

4 January, 08:30

Stacy is watching an airplane that is 6 miles away from her and 4 miles above the ground. how many degrees above the horizontal must she look up to see the plane?

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Freddy · Answer 1

Let the angle be x degree.

tan (x) = 4/6

x=tan^-1 (4/6)

x=33.69

she must look up about 33.69 degrees.

Alexandra Baxter · Answer 2

I was looking out of my window and saw a plane making a contrail slightly more south west of my ... do I need to work out how far up I am to get a good angle? or is that negated by the fact it is 6 miles up ...