A surveyor wishes to measure the width of a trench. He places a transit telescope in a position on one side of the trench that is 18 feet higher than the second location. The surveyor reads the angle of depression from the transit telescope and finds that it is 31°, as shown in the diagram below. If the transit telescope is 4.5 feet above the ground at the first location during this reading, how wide is the trench?

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this doesn't make sense lol

so a parallelogram is just like a square base times height. multiply 40 and 39 to get 1560 inches.

a triangle is base times height divided by two. so multiply 7.9 and 5 and then divide it by 2 to get 19.75inches.

the kite can be split into two separate triangles and added together to get the total area. 30 x 4 /2 which equals 60. make sure to double it for the two triangles making 120.