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50 Points! Multiple choice geometry question. Photo attached. Thank you!

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Answer:

The 13.2 meters from that point on the ocean floor to the wreck.

Explanation:

As given

A ship's sonar finds that the angle of

depression to a ship wrack on the bottom of the ocean is 12.5°.

If a point on the ocean floor is 60

meters.

Now by using the trigonometric identity.

tano = Perpendicular /Base

As shown in the figure given below.

Perpendicular CB

Base AC = 60 meters

0 = 12.5°

Put in the identity CB

tan 12.5°

AC

tan 12.5° CB 60

tan 12.5° 0.22

tan 12.5° = 0.22

0.22 CB 60

CB = 60 × 0.22

CB= 13.2 meters

Therefore the 13.2 meters from that point on the ocean floor to the wreck.

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