Question

FIRST PERSON TO ANSWER GETS THE BRAINLIEST ANSWER!! HURRY. A person is snorkeling sees a turtle on the ocean floor at an angle of depression of 41 degrees. She is 15 feet above the ocean floor. How far from the turtle is she? Round to the nearest foot. ( please show all of your work step by step so that I can understand it )

Answer 1

Her distance from the turtle is the hypotenuse of a triangle with one leg equal to her height above the ocean floor...

sinα=h/d  where h=her height, and d is her distance from the turtle...

d=h/sinα  we are given that h=15ft and α=41° so

d=6/sin41 ft

d≈9.15 ft (to nearest one-hundredth of a foot)