{"id":153028,"date":"2023-07-28T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=153028"},"modified":"2023-07-28T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T05:50:13","slug":"the-angle-of-elevation-of-the-top-of-a-tower-at-a-point-x-is-30-on-walking-30-m-towards-the-tower-if-the-angle-of-elevation-becomes-60-at-point-y-find-the-height-of-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/the-angle-of-elevation-of-the-top-of-a-tower-at-a-point-x-is-30-on-walking-30-m-towards-the-tower-if-the-angle-of-elevation-becomes-60-at-point-y-find-the-height-of-the-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The angle of elevation of the top of a tower at a point X is 30\u00b0. On walking 30 m towards the tower if the angle of elevation becomes 60\u00b0 at point Y, find the height of the tower?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Question<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">The angle of elevation of the top of a tower at a point X is 30\u00b0. On walking 30 m towards the tower if the angle of elevation becomes 60\u00b0 at point Y, find the height of the tower?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Type<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">multiple_choice<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>26 m<\/td><td>correct<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>28 m<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>29 m<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>30 m<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Solution: <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-110.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153029\" width=\"181\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-110.png 369w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-110-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let AB be the height of tower and XA be the distance between point X and base of tower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-111.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153030\" width=\"220\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-111.png 378w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-111-215x300.png 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>XA = 3XA &#8211; 90<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; 2XA = &#8211; 90<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-112.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153031\" width=\"95\" height=\"29\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Put the value of XA in equation (1) to find AB (height of tower).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-113.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153032\" width=\"276\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-113.png 433w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-113-300x35.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question The angle of elevation of the top of a tower at a point X is 30\u00b0. On walking 30 m towards the tower if the angle of elevation becomes 60\u00b0 at point Y, find the height of the tower? Type multiple_choice Option 26 m correct Option 28 m incorrect Option 29 m incorrect Option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":153033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"class_list":["post-153028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantitative-aptitude","tag-quantitative-aptitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153034,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153028\/revisions\/153034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}