Question

From a distance of 1220 feet from a spotlight, the angle of elevation to a cloud base is 42°, how do you find the height of the cloud base to the nearest foot?

Answer 1

Find the height of a cloud

Explanation:

Call h the cloud's height. We have:

`tan 42 = h/1220 -> h = 1220(tan 42) = 1220(0.90) = 1098` ft