an airplane climbs at an angle of 13 degrees with the ground. what is the distance it has traveled( to the nearest hundred feet) when it has attained an altitude of 400 feet
We can use the sine here
sin 13 = 400 / d where d is the distance on the hypotenuse it has traveled
Rearrange..and we have
d = 400/sin 13 = about 1800 ft (rounded)
