A park maintenance person stands 16 m from a circular monument. If you assume her lines of sight form tangents to the monument and make an angle of 34°, what is the measure of the arc of the monument that her lines of sight intersect?

A) 68
B) 292
C) 146
D) 17

Respuesta :

Since we know that triangle ECT is right, dropping a perpendicular from point I (not labeled...it's where EC intersects the circle) to ET, creates similar triangle EIT' We can find the length of IT' using trigonometry. IT′=16sin(17)≈4.68so the ratio 16/4.68 = (16+r)/r Solving this for r, we get16r≈4.86(16)+4.68r11.32r≈74.88r≈6.61 Using this in the above formula gets uss=πrθ/180≈π(6.61)(146)/180≈16.9 The given answer of 17 is really close.