Question

An engineer on the ground is looking at the top of a building. The angle of elevation to the top of the building is 46°. The engineer knows the building is 250 ft tall. What is the distance from the engineer to the base of the building to the nearest whole foot?

Answer 1

to find the base distance divide the height by the tangent of the angle

so 250/tan(46) =241.42

rounded to nearest foot = 241 feet