Heidy is standing on a 40-foot cliff overlooking a river. The angel of depression to the near side of the river is 64 degrees and the angle of depression to the far side is 35 degrees. How wide is the river, to the nearest tenth of a foot?

it would rotate about 180 degrees.

step-by-step explanation:

points a and b are equidistant from the desired line, so the line you find by using them will go through point r.

using points other than a and b will give the desired line only if they are equidistant from r. if they are randomly located, the perpendicular line you create will not necessarily go through point r, hence will not be a solution to the problem.

the image is given below

since the options are not given so we draw it from the equation

the given equation is

y = (x-1) (x+4)

y = y² + 3x - 4

the above equation is a quadratic equation which will have two roots. if we draw the graph for it, it will look like this