A man stands on his balcony, 120 feet above the ground. He looks at the ground, with his sight line forming an angle of 50° with the building, and sees a bus stop. The function d = 120sec models the distance from the man to any object given his angle of sight . How far is the bus stop from the man? Round your answer to the nearest foot. 187 ft 92 ft 77 ft 157 ft

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his I 120 ft up, & angel=50 deg

Then angel out at the bus =40 deg

hite/distans=tan(40 deg)=0.839099631

distans=hite/0.839099631

=120/ 0.839099631

=143.0 ft
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It's 187 feet.
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