A blimp provides aerial television views of a soccer game. The television camera sights the stadium at a 12degrees angle of depression. The altitude of the blimp is 400m. What is the line-of-sight distance from the television camera to the base of the stadium ? Round to the nearest hundred meters

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Xiomara Hobbs

11 February, 06:59

A blimp provides aerial television views of a soccer game. The television camera sights the stadium at a 12degrees angle of depression. The altitude of the blimp is 400m. What is the line-of-sight distance from the television camera to the base of the stadium ? Round to the nearest hundred meters

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Yasmin Golden · Answer 1

1900 meters.

Explanation:

Angle of depression = 12

Height of Blimp = 400m

Let x be the line of sight distance.

Using trigonometric ratios,

sin (12) = opposite/hypotenuse

sin (12) = 400/x

x = 400/sin (12)

x = 1923.89