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Measurement via Triangulation

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Students utilize triangulation techniques to determine altitudes of objects. An altitude locator is constructed and used to determine the height of a building or a tree. Tangent tables and formulas provide the ratio for the formula to obtain the results.

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Grade
6th - 12th
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Math
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