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- Find the ladder tip height and reach for a fire truck ladder at 64 degrees.
- Find the grade and angle of the steepest allowed wheelchair ramp.
- Find the drop and horizontal distance to a campfire from a lookout.
- Find how far the center of a security camera's view is from the wall.
- Find the height of a statue from angles of elevation to the pedestal and the statue top.
- Find the distance between two farmhouses from angles of depression.
- Find the tower height from two angles of elevation and a walked distance.
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Angles of elevation and depression: the lesson ›More Chapter 8 worksheets: Right triangles and trigonometry
- 8.1Geometric means in a right triangle
- 8.2Proving the Pythagorean theorem with similar triangles
- 8.3Special right triangles
- 8.4Opposite, adjacent and hypotenuse
- 8.5Sine, cosine and tangent
- 8.6Trig values of the special right triangles
- 8.7Solving right triangles
- 8.8Inverse trigonometric ratios
- 8.9Angles of elevation and depression
- 8.10Measuring what you cannot reach