Angle of Depression Word Problems

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1) Lindsey is 9.2 meters up, and the angle of depression from Lindsey to Pete is 79°. Find the distance
from Pete to the base of the building to the nearest tenth of a meter.

2) To see Lindsey better, Pete walks out into the street so he is 4.3 meters from the base of the building.
Find the angle of depression from Lindsey to Pete to the nearest degree.

3) Anita Lightfoot is in a plane that is at an elevation of 500 feet. She spots a person sunbathing on the
roof of a 225 foot building. The distance from the plane to the person is 360 feet. Find the angle of
depression (to the nearest degree) of the sunbather.

4) An airplane is flying at a height of 2 miles above level ground. The angle of depression from the
plane to the foot of the tree is 15°. What is the distance the plane must fly to be directly above the
tree?

5) The angle between the top of a building and a point 80 feet away from the base (on level ground) is
70° . How tall is the building?

6) A swimming pool is 3 feet deep in the shallow end. The bottom of the pool has a steady downward
drop of 12° towards the deep end. If the pool is 50 feet long, how deep is the deep end?

7) A buoy in the ocean is observed from the top of a 40-meter-high oil rig. The angle of depression
from the top of the tower to the buoy is 6° . How far is the buoy from the base of the oil rig?

8) A cliff is 80 feet above the sea. From the cliff the angle of depression to a boat is 35°. How far is the
boat from the base of the cliff? Round your answer to one decimal place.

9) A 12 meter flagpole casts a 9 meter shadow. Find the angle of elevation of the sun.

10) Suppose you’re flying a kite, and it gets caught at the top of the tree. You’ve let out
all 100 feet of string for the kite, and the angle that the string makes with the ground
is 75 degrees. Instead of worrying about how to get your kite back, you wonder.
“How tall is that tree?”

11) Suppose that Mike and Dave are making measurements for the road-paving crew.
They need to know how much the land slopes downward along a particular stretch
of road. Dave walks 80 feet from Mike and holds up a long pole, perpendicular to
the ground, that has markings every inch along it. Mike looks at the pole through a
sighting instrument. Looking straight across, parallel to the horizon, Mike sights a
point on the pole 50 inches above the ground- call it point A. Then Mike looks
through the instrument at the bottom of the pole, creating an angle of depression.
Which is the angle of depression or slope of the road, to where Mike is standing?

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12) A submersible traveling at a depth of 250 feet dives at an angle of 15º with respect
to a line parallel to the water’s surface. It travels a horizontal distance of 1500 feet
during the dive. What is the depth of the submersible after the dive?

13) A fire department’s longest ladder is 110 feet long, and the safety regulation states
that they can use it for rescues up to 100 feet off the ground. What is the maximum
safe angle of elevation for the rescue ladder?

14) The width of the tent is approximately 10.4 feetBrothers Bob and Tom Katz buy a tent that has a
center pole 6.25 feet high. If the sides of the tent are supposed to make a 50° angle with the ground,
how wide is the tent?

15) A damsel is in distress and is being held captive in a tower. Her knight in shining armor is on the
ground below with a ladder. When the knight stands 15 feet from the base of the tower and looks up
at his precious damsel, the angle of elevation to her window is 60 degrees. How long does the ladder
have to be?

16) The height of a building is 250 ft. What is the angle of elevation from a point on the level ground 200
ft away from the base of the building?

17) An airplane over the Pacific sights an atoll at a 23 degree angle of depression. If the plane is 445m
above water, how many kilometers is it from 445m above the atoll?

18) A campsite is 9.41 miles from a point directly below the mountain top. If the angle of elevation is 12º
from the camp to the top of the mountain, how high is the mountain?

19) At a point 42.3 feet from the base of a building, the angle of elevation of the top is 75º. How tall is
the building?

20) How far from the door must a ramp begin in order to rise three feet with an 8º angle of elevation?

21) Chelsea’s camp is 5,280 feet from a point directly beneath Mt. Monadnock. What is the hiking
distance along the ridge if the angle of elevation is 25º ?

22) A building casts a shadow of 110 feet. If the angle of elevation from that point to the top of the
building is 29º, find the height of the building.

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23) A campsite is 12.88 miles from a point directly below Mt. Adams. If the angle of elevation is 15º
from the camp to the top of the mountain, how high is the mountain?

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 Answers to Angle of Depression Word Problems
1) Pete is approximately 1.9 m from the building. 2) The angle of depression is approximately 65°
3) The angle of depression is approximately 50°. 4) The plane must fly for approximately 7.5 miles
5) The building is approximately 219.8 feet high. 6) The pool is approximately 13.6 feeet deep.
7) It is approximately 380.6 m from the buoy to the base of the oil rig.
8) The boat is approximately 114.3 feet from the cliff.
9) The angle of elevation is approximately 53° 10) The tree is approximately 96.6 feet high.
11) The angle of depression is approximately 3°
12) The submersible is now at a depth of approximately 651.9 feet.
13) The maximum safe angle of elevation is approximately 65°
14) The width of the tent is approximately 10.4 feet 15) The ladder must be 30 feet.
16) The angle of elevation is approximately 51° 17) It is approximately 1048.4 meters
18) The mountain is approximately 2.0 miles high 19) The building is approximately 157.9 feet tall.
20) The ramp must start approximately 21.3 feet from the door.
21) The hiking distance is approximately 5825.8 feet.
22) The height of the building is approximatley 61.0 feet
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