A plane took off from a field and rose at an angle of 8° with the horizontal ground. As the plane flies over a water tower, it has covered a distance from the take off point of 2000 feet. How far apart are the take off point and the water tower?

if a = 1,   and b = 2, then the answer is 47.99999999. if you round that to the nearest whole number, the answer is 48.

the answer is:

the correct option is the option b.

to calculate the surface area of the right cylinder, we need to use the following formula:

from the picture we know that:

so, substituting and calculting we have:

hence, we have that the correct option is the option b.

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