A dog is standing 12 feet from a tree looking at a bird in the tree. the angle of elevation from the dog to the bird is 50°. how far above the ground is the bird? round to the nearest tenth of a foot.
The distance of the bird from the ground will be given by: tan θ=opposite/adjacent θ=50° opposite=h adjacent=12 ft plugging in the values in the formula we get: tan 50=h/12 thus h=12tan50 h=14.301 ft =14.3 ft
