A 20-foot ladder is placed against a tree. The bottom is located 5 feet from the base of the tree and the top of the ladder is 5√15 feet up the tree. Use tangent to find the angle created between the ladder and tree. Include a sketch that shows all known information and clearly shows what you need to find. Show all work and give the answer rounded to the nearest tenth of a degree.

14.5°

Step-by-step explanation:

The sketch results in an angle of depression problem.

In this case, the opposite side of the triangle formed is 5 ft

The hypotenuse side is 20 ft

The adjacent side is the ft

Using tangent θ = opp/adj

tangent θ = 5/ = = 0.258

θ = 0.258 = 14.5°

let's cover over the formula of the vertex:

y = a(x – h)^2 + k

in this formula, (h,k) are the vertex, always remember that the positive or negative value of the vertex is based on the sign it has.

for example, if the vertex is -3,-6 then both the x and y value would have the positive sign attached to it and if it were a positive x and y value, then a negative sign would be attached to it.

with that being said, for our problem the x value is a positive one so we are looking for a number with a negative sign next to it, in this case the first and second choice.

however, for the first answer choice it isn't quite part of the formula so we know that the answer choice correctly displays the x value.

to confirm, we can see if the -1 fits correctly with the second answer choice, and as mentioned above a negative number will have a positive sign attached to it. so, for our problem we can see that -1 has been changed to +1, so we can confirm that the second answer choice is correct.

hence, our final answer is y=(x - 1)^2 + 1