Find the Horizontal Distance from a Ship to the Base

question 81

Short Answer

Find the horizontal distance from a ship to the base of a 150-foot-tall lighthouse if the angle of
depression to the ship from the top of the lighthouse is 24°. (Disregard the dimensions of the ship
and round to the nearest foot)

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Definitions:

Psychodynamic Approach

An approach to psychology emphasizing unconscious thought, the conflict between biological drives (such as the drive for sex) and society’s demands, and early childhood family experiences.

Unconscious Conflicts

Internal struggles arising from unresolved, often repressed, desires or impulses that can lead to mental disturbances or disorders according to psychoanalytic theories.

Psychoanalysis

Freud’s therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual’s unconscious thoughts.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach and theory of psychological disorders founded by Sigmund Freud, emphasizing unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts.