While you are sitting on a chair at the edge of a 1.8-m-deep swimming pool, your eyes are 1.4 mabove the surface of the water. You see an acorn on the bottom of the pool at a 45? angle below the horizontal.

What is the horizontal distance between you and the acorn?

d =

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Annie Ewing

9 May, 23:54

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Marc Potts · Answer 1

d=2.55m

Explanation:

This is a right angle triangle opp / hyp = sin45

1.8/d = sin45

d sin45=1.8

d = 1.8/sin 45 = 1.8/0.7071 = 2.55m

While you are sitting on a chair at the edge of a 1.8-m-deep swimming pool, your eyes are 1.4 mabove the surface of the water. You see an acorn on the bottom of the pool at a 45? angle below the horizontal.What is the horizontal distance between you and the acorn?d =