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Pre-Calc – Solving Triangles Word Problems Classwork
1. A farmer has a triangular field with sides of 240 feet, 300 feet, and 360 feet. He wants to apply fertilizer to the field.
If one 40-pound bag of fertilizer covers 6,000 square feet, how many bags must he buy to cover the field?
2. The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, DC consists of two walls of black, polished granite, each 246.75 feet
long, which meet at an angle of 125.2 . If extended, the west wall would reach to the Lincoln Memorial, 900 feet away
from the end of the wall and the east wall would reach to the Washington Monument 3,500 feet away from the end of
the wall. Find the distance between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Memorial to the nearest foot.
3. An airplane traveling at a level altitude of 2,050 feet sights the top of a 50-foot tower at an angle of depression of
28 from point A. After continuing in level flight to point B, the angle of depression to the same tower is 34 . Find, to
the nearest foot, the distance that the plane traveled from point A to point B.