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How tall does a lighthouse need to be to be visible to a vessel (25km out to sea)?
Given that the radius of the earth is 6370km.
I know how to do this with trigonometry, but I'm not supposed to use that in this question.
Help!
You can use the Pythagorean theorem. If you presume that at sea you can see the horizon at an angle of 0 degrees (which is normal to the radius of the earth in this point), then the tip of the lighthouse which is 25 km away is visible just. The triangle you need is represented with this three points: the center of the earth, the vessel, the tip of the lighthouse, or the following equation:
6370^2+25^2=(6370+h)^2
where h is the height of the lighthouse.
The result is h=49 m, plus something.
See, no trigonometry function.
Hope you got the same result with trigonometry.
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