As the students were approaching the park, they noticed a huge tower that was just being completed. Lucas and Jacob were part of the group responsible for looking at
advertising. They couldn’t help but to think, one of the main attractions of the park
would be the ride involving this tower. It was a bright, sunny day. As they got off
the bus, they collected the mathematical materials provided by their teacher. These
materials included: pencil, paper, eraser, calculator, measuring tape, a
clinometer (a tool used to measure vertical angles). They walked through the
park until they reached the shadow of the tower. They looked up and couldn’t
believe how high it was

Q: If they are going to advertise, the height of the tower in a brochure that is
being created, they want to be sure of their answer. Describe how they
could use the materials they have and trigonometry to determine the
height of the tower. The explanations should include a detailed diagram,
clear step by step instructions making use of terminology appropriately
and even examples showing the calculations to be used to determine
the height.

The students could use what they know of triangle rectangles, in the image below you can see the diagram that the students could use to estimate the height of the tower.

First, the students could use the measuring tape to find the distance between the base of the tower and them, this distance is represented with the variable S in the image below.

Now, using the clinometer, they could find the elevation angle between their viewpoint and the tip of the tower. This would be the angle θ in the image (notice that they should do this from the ground).

So at this point, we know one angle and the adjacent cathetus to that angle.

And we want to find the height of the tower, which is the opposite cathetus to the known angle.

Then we can remember the trigonometric relation:

tan(a) = (opposite cathetus)/(adjacent cathetus)

Replacing these by the things we know:

tan(θ) = H/S

tan(θ)*S = H

Then, by measuring θ and S, we can find the height.

If you want to read more about triangle rectangles, you can see:

12.5 feet

step-by-step explanation:

median is the value separating the higher half of a data sample, a population or probablity distribution from the lower half.

step-by-step explanation:

say you have 3,8,7,3,1,9,8 order them from lowest to highest

if orderd it would be 1,3,3,7,8,8,9 now you take away from the lowest and the highest until you end up in the middle.

so you would remove the 1 and 9 leaving you with 5 digits remaining

when you've reached the middle that would be your answer so in this case the answer is 7

if there were two numbers left say 7 and 5 you'd and them together so 12 then divide by 2 witch would equal 6 so the answer would be 6

good luck on that project hoped i you at all