Three people are watching a hot air balloon travel over their town. at a certain point in time, one person stands directly below the balloon, and the others look at it at certain angles. in the following image, a, b, and c are people, and d is the balloon. person c is 384m directly below the balloon, person b is 200m away from person c, and the angle between person a, the balloon, and person b is 33 degrees. how far is person a from the hot air balloon?

On traditional maps, earth is represented in a flat plane, or by euclidean geometry. however, a globe is a more accurate model that comes from elliptical geometry.how does a globe represent the fact that there are no parallel lines in elliptical geometry? the equator is not parallel to any other latitudinal lines. the north and south poles are never connected by a geodesic. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles never intersect. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles intersect at both of the poles.