A plane rises from take-off and flies at an angle of with the horizontal runway. When it has gained 500 feet, find the distance, to the nearest foot, the plane has flown.
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Airplane Trajectory An airplane is flying at a speed of 350 mi/h at an altitude of one mile. The plane passes directly above a radar station at time .Express the distance s (in miles) between the plane and the radar station as a function of the horizontal distance (in miles) that the plane has flown.
gateway Arch A plane is flying within sight of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, at an elevation of 35,000 ft. The pilot would like to estimate her distance from the Gateway Arch. She finds that the angle of depression to a point on the ground below the arch is .
What is the distance between the plane and the arch?
What is the distance between a point on the ground directly below the plane and the arch?
.Express the distance s (in miles) between the plane and the radar station as a function of the horizontal distance 
(in miles) that the plane has flown.
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