Please I need help

Question

A fishing angle of de fishing boat determines a pod of fish located in the ocean at an le of depression of 25 from the current boat location. The fishing at determines the distance through the ocean to the fish is 150 vards . What distance does the boat need to travel on the surface of the ocean to be located directly above the fish ? Sketch the scenario labeling what you know and need to find . Show all work to find the distance Round to the nearest unit .

Answer 1

I think this is the problem you describe:

For the triangle formed, we can use the trig ratio "cosine" to solve for the distance "d" because cosine = adjacent/hypotenuse. The hypotenuse is 150 yds. So we can say:

cos(25°) = d/150 then we can multiply both sides of the equation by 150 to get:

d = 150*cos(25°)

Plugging this into a calculator we get d = 136 yds