Question

A student can see a tower from the closest point of the soccer field at his high school. The edge of the soccer field is about 105 feet from the water tower and the water tower stands at a height of 51 feet. What Is the angle of elevation from the student's feet?

Answer 1

The figure is omitted--please sketch it to confirm my answer.

Set your calculator to degree mode.

`\tan( \alpha ) = (51)/(105)`

`\alpha = {tan}^( - 1) (51)/(105) = 25.91`

The angle of elevation is about 25.91°.