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This document is a student's mathematics assignment on solving problems involving angle of depression. It includes the student's name and grade, learning target, references used, and examples worked out step-by-step. There are also 3 practice exercises for the student to complete. The assignment provides guidance on using trigonometric ratios like tangent to find angle of depression and distances in problems involving observations from elevated positions.

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Examples:: tanθ= opposite adjacent tanθ= tanθ=0.6667

This document is a student's mathematics assignment on solving problems involving angle of depression. It includes the student's name and grade, learning target, references used, and examples worked out step-by-step. There are also 3 practice exercises for the student to complete. The assignment provides guidance on using trigonometric ratios like tangent to find angle of depression and distances in problems involving observations from elevated positions.

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Name: _________________________________________________Grade & Section: _________________

Subject: Mathematics 9 Teacher: _____________________________________ Score: ______________

Lesson : Quarter 4 Week 4 LAS 2


Activity Title : Angle of Depression
Learning Target : Solves problems involving angle of depression.
Reference(s) : MATH 9 DepEd Learner’s Material First Edition, 2014, ISBN: 978-971-9601-71-5
: https://www.brainkart.com/article/Problems-involving-Angle-of-Depression_39408/
: Gladys C. Nivera, Ph. D. et. al. Grade 8 Mathematics Pattern and Practicalities (Kto12),
Salesiana Books by Don Bosco Press Inc.
LAS Writer : Ritchie A. Aboltivo

To recall, solving a triangle means finding the lengths of the sides and measures of the angles of the triangle.
Trigonometric ratios may be used to solve problems involving angles of depression.
Examples:
1. An airplane is flying at a height of 4 kilometers above the ground. The distance along the ground from the
airplane to the airport is 6 kilometers. What is the angle of depression from the airplane to the airport?
opposite
tanθ=
adjacent
4
tanθ=
6
tanθ=0.6667
θ=tan −1(0.6667)
θ=33.69°
2. As observed from the top of a 60m light house from the sea level, the angles of depression of two ships are
28 ° and 45 °. If one ship is exactly behind the other on the same side of the lighthouse, find the distance
between the two ships. ( tan28 ° =0.5317)
DC
In right triangle DCB, tan 45 °=
BC
60
1=
BC
BC=60 m
DC
In right triangle DCA, tan28 °=
AC
60
0.5317=
AC
60
AC= =112.85
0.5317
Distance between the two ships AB= AC−BC =52.85 m

Exercises:
1. From the top of a lighthouse 29.5 m high, the angle of depression of an observer to a boat is 28.5°. How far
is the boat from the lighthouse?
2. A CCTV camera is mounted on a wall 3m above a blank teller’s desk. It is used to view the bank’s entrance
door, which has a horizontal distance of 10m from the camera. Find the angle of depression from the camera
lens to the entrance door.
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3. From a height 42m above sea level, two ships are sighted due east. The angles of depression are 52 ° and
27 °. How far apart are the ships?

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