Question

A film student wants to capture a shot of a satellite dish placed at the top of a building. The line of sight between the ground camera and top of the building is 51 feet, and the angel of the camera with respect to the ground is 43 degrees. What is the height of the building?

Answer 1

34.78 feet

Explanation:

1) using the cosine function, I did cos(43)=x/51

This is because cosine is equal to adjacent over hypotnuse

Once I found x, I used the pythagorean theorem to get 34.78 feet