8. A searchlight is mounted at the front of a helicopter flying 125 m 1 above ground. The angle of depression of the light beam is 70°.
An observer on the ground notices that the beam of light measures 5º.
How wide, to the nearest metre, is d, the spot on the ground?

Astick 2 m long is placed vertically at point b. the top of the stick is in line with the top of a tree as seen from point a, which is 3 m from the stick and 30 m from the tree. how tall is the tree?

Alexandra drove from michigan to colorado to visit her friend. the speed limit on the highway is 70 miles per hour. if alexandra's combined driving time for the trip was 14 hours how many miles did alejandra drive?

There are two major tests of readiness for college: the act and the sat. act scores are reported on a scale from 1 to 36. the distribution of act scores in recent years has been roughly normal with mean µ = 20.9 and standard deviation s = 4.8. sat scores are reported on a scale from 400 to 1600. sat scores have been roughly normal with mean µ = 1026 and standard deviation s = 209. reports on a student's act or sat usually give the percentile as well as the actual score. the percentile is just the cumulative proportion stated as a percent: the percent of all scores that were lower than this one. tanya scores 1260 on the sat. what is her percentile (± 1)?