Question

The angle of elevation from a ship to the top of a light-house is 3 degrees, if the ship is 1000 meters from the light-house how tall is the light-house?

Answer 1

tangent 3 degrees = height / 1,000
height = tangent (3) * 1,000
height = 0.052408 * 1,000
height = 52.408 meters