A passenger in an airplane looks out the window and spots the airport in the distance. The angle of depression to the airport is 63°, and the airplane is flying at 18,000 feet. What is the horizontal distance to the airport?

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  about 9171 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

It can help to draw a diagram.

The relation between angle, opposite side, and adjacent side in a right triangle is ...

  Tan = Opposite/Adjacent

  tan(63°) = (18000 ft)/(horizontal distance)

  horizontal distance = (18000 ft)/tan(63°) ≈ 9171 ft

The horizontal distance to the airport is about 9171 feet.

10x

step-by-step explanation:

the greatest common factor 30 and 20 is 10

5 is a common factor of 30 and 20 but 10 is also a factor and 10 is greater than 5 so 5 will definitely not be apart of our answer

now the most amount of x's you factor our is just 1 factor of 1

so 10x the gcf of the terms in the polynomial