Given:
Cora determines that the angle of elevation from her position to the top of the coconut tree is 50⁰. If the tree is 8.5 m high.
Required:
How far is cora from the tree?
Explanation:
We will draw figure as:
let distance of Cora from tree x.
We know trigonometric identities
[tex]\begin{gathered} tan\theta=\frac{Perpendicular}{Base} \\ tan50^{\circ}=\frac{8.5}{x} \\ x=7.13 \end{gathered}[/tex]Answer:
Cora is 7.13 m far from the tree.
