Question

A balloon is connected to a meteorological ground station by a cable of length 215 m inclined at 60° to the horizontal. Determine the height of the balloon from the ground. Assume that there is no slack in the cable.

Answer 1

Let AB be the balloon of height h. And the balloon is connected to the metrological ground station by a cable of length 215 m. Let AC = 215 and

Here we have to find height of balloon.

We have the following corresponding figure

So we use trigonometric ratios

In a triangle ABC,

Hence the height of balloon is m.