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Lisa
and penny are guests at a beachside hotel. lisa is laying on a towel at the beach which is 50 feet from the base of the hotel. when shi
looks up at an angle of 54.5 degrees, she can see her sister penny waving to her from the hotel window.
draw a scale representation of the triangle that models the situation and can be solved to find the stralght-line distance between penny
and lisa. round calculations to the nearest foot. each unit on the grid represents five feet.
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Answer 1

The straight-line distance between penny and Lisa is 70.1 feet if Lisa is laying on a towel at the beach, which is 50 feet from the base of the hotel.

What is trigonometry?

Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics that deals with the relationship between sides and angles of a right-angle triangle.

Let's suppose the distance between the Lisa and Penny is x feet.

We can draw a right-angle triangle for this situation.

As we can see in the right angle triangle.

tan54.5 = x/50  (from the right-angle triangle)

x = 50tan54.5

x = 70.09 ≈ 70.1 feet

Thus, the straight-line distance between penny and Lisa is 70.1 feet if Lisa is laying on a towel at the beach, which is 50 feet from the base of the hotel.

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