Question

An airplane is approaching los angeles international airport at an altitude of b feet. if the horizontal distance from the plane to the runway is a miles, use the pythagorean theorem to find the diagonal distance from the plane to the runway. assume a=1.6, b=6,336. (5,280 feet equals 1 mile.)

Answer 1

1.6^2 + 6.336^2 = 42.7 --> square root = 6.53 miles

Now we convert 6.53 to feet like this:

6.53 * 5280 = 34504 feet