The question -printed-:
A helicopter spots two possible landing sites at the top and bottom of an 11 degree incline. The distance between the sites is 500 m, and the helicopter is 85 m directly above the midpoint of the segment joining them. How far is the helicopter on a direct line from each site?
What I want:
1) graph of that shape
2) The answers with steps and complete explanation
3) Link explaining problems as this one.
And thank you all very much.
A helicopter spots two possible landing sites at the top and bottom of an 11 degree incline. The distance between the sites is 500 m, and the helicopter is 85 m directly above the midpoint of the segment joining them. How far is the helicopter on a direct line from each site?
What I want:
1) graph of that shape
2) The answers with steps and complete explanation
3) Link explaining problems as this one.
And thank you all very much.
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I've provided a picture I gathered from your words. I didn't place the 500m distance on the picture itself, but it is the sloped hypotenuse between points A and B. Just so you know. So see the link below.
From that graph you can see that the distance from the helicopter (85m above the midpoint) to A is (from Pythagorean's theorem):
√[(85m + ½⋅500m⋅ sin(11°))²+ (½⋅500m⋅ cos(11°))²]
or,
≈ 278.988m
Also from that graph you can see that the distance from the helicopter (85m above the midpoint) to B is:
√[(85m - ½⋅500m⋅ sin(11°))²+ (½⋅500m⋅ cos(11°))²]
or,
≈ 248.225m
Hopefully, the picture is sufficiently explanatory that you can match up the pieces I provided with the problem statement you wrote out and can follow the logic there and here. You need to know that:
x = r ⋅ cos θ
y = r ⋅ sin θ
But I suspect you do.
From that graph you can see that the distance from the helicopter (85m above the midpoint) to A is (from Pythagorean's theorem):
√[(85m + ½⋅500m⋅ sin(11°))²+ (½⋅500m⋅ cos(11°))²]
or,
≈ 278.988m
Also from that graph you can see that the distance from the helicopter (85m above the midpoint) to B is:
√[(85m - ½⋅500m⋅ sin(11°))²+ (½⋅500m⋅ cos(11°))²]
or,
≈ 248.225m
Hopefully, the picture is sufficiently explanatory that you can match up the pieces I provided with the problem statement you wrote out and can follow the logic there and here. You need to know that:
x = r ⋅ cos θ
y = r ⋅ sin θ
But I suspect you do.