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you are standing, on the horizontal ground, __ feet from the base of a cliff. Admiring your surroundings, you nite that the angle of elevation to the top of the cliff to be __ degrees. If realistic limits are imposed on your choices, what would be a reasonable distance from the cliff? What would be a reasonable angle if elevation? Explain.

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CharlieStryker


If
realistic limits are imposed on the choices I would go with 1000 ft.
For the angle of elevation I would chose 34°. This because as we
know an angle of elevation is the angle between the observer's’
line of sight and a horizontal line when the observer looks upward.






If
you wanted to find the height of the cliff you would use the
following:






Tan34
= x/1000



x
= tan(34)*1000



x
= 674.51 ft.



I
hope this helps, Regards.

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