Trigonometry Problem
The problem that we have been working on for the past few days was to use the trigonometry we have just learned to find the height of any object around the school. We measured the distance from Hunter and the flag pole which was 18 feet. in distance. Then we measured the angle of elevation, which was the angle he was looking up to the top of the pole. Then we used our trigonometry to find the height of the pole. We did tan(62) * 18ft because we know the tan of an angle is opposite over adjacent We isolated the opposite to equal tan * adjacent Then lastly we added the height of the Hunter, which was 5 foot 11 inches in order to get the height of the pole. The total height comes up to 38.96 feet!