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Week 5 – Math 10 – Angle of Elevation and Depression

This week in math I learned what the terms angle of elevation and depression mean.

These terms angle of elevation and angle of depression are typically useful clues in word problems to figure out how to draw your triangle to start solving, the terms themselves self explanatory to an extent, the angle of elevation means the reference angle on your triangle will be sloping upwards from the horizontal and an angle of depression means that your reference angle will slope downwards from the horizontal.

Regardless if you have to draw an angle of elevation or depression, you always start with a horizontal line, when working with an angle of depression you should always have an upside down triangle and you’d sometimes be dealing with something in a word problem that’d be going underground or south, working with an angle of elevation means your triangle will be right side up and is used to describe (for example) diagonal distances and slopes.

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