HELP Locating a Forest Fire
Rangers in the two lookout towers nouce'a plume of smoke, as shown
in the diagram. The towers are 2000 ft apart. One curger observes the snoke at an
angle of 54. The other ranger olserves it an angle of 30. Both angle's are measured
from the line that connects the two towers. When the rangers call to report the Gre,
diey clust give the fire department the approximate distance fruin their luukuur tower
to the fire.
Task Description
Find the distance from each lookout tower to the fire.
• The dashed vertical line segmente divdes diy distance between die luukout
lowers into two parts. What expressious can you use to represent the leagues
of the parts?
• Whal expression represents the length of the daslied vertical line segment