Melissa is standing 40 ft from a tree. the angle of elevation from where she is standing on the ground to the top of the tree is 50°. how tall is the tree? round the final answer to the nearest tenth. enter your answer in the box.

Melissa is standing 40 ft from a tree, so m = 40 is base of the triangle.
angle of elevation (aoe) = 50°
The tree's height (h) is the side opposite the aoe (50°), therefore in trigonometry tangent 50 = opposite / adjacent. The side adjacent to that angle (50°) is the base (m). Therefore:
tan50 = h/m
And now h = m (tan50)
h = 40 (1.19) = 47.7 ft

Abit confused about what you mean, but i think you might be referring to slope intercept form: y = mx + bin that case b, or the y intercept is already given.(0,-1)find the slope by using the formulay2 - y1/x2 - x1the final slope will be 4/2, equivalent to 2.now your equation should look like thisy = 4/2x -1sorry if this didn’t you out!