A ship’s guidance system measures that the ship is 380 m from the top of a lighthouse. The top of the lighthouse is 88 m above sea level. How far is the ship from the lighthouse to the nearest tenth of a meter?
2 Answers
The ship is 369.7 m away
Explanation:
Let's assign variables to the quantities given in the problem.
Using the pythagorean theorem:
Does this make sense?
Yes,
The ship is 369.7m from the lighthouse.
Explanation:
After converting the question into an image, you can see that it forms a right angle triangle, so you can use Pythagorean theorem.
Round to nearest tenth