Question

Suppose you are standing 500 feet away from a tree and you see a hawk hovering directly above that tree. The angle of elevation from you to the hawk is 24°. To the nearest foot, at what height is the hawk hovering?

Answer 1

To the nearest foot, the hawk is hovering 223 feet in the air and you can get this by....

tan(24)= x/500

The x will be your answer for the height, which is 222.614.