Can anyone walk me through these trigonometry questions?

So you have the angle of elevation 63 degrees, you also have the distance of the person from the building, which is 50 ft. From that information, you must decide whether to use sine, cosine, or tangent. Imagine, or draw the triangle. If you draw the triangle right, you should have 50 ft as the adjacent, with your degree of 63 and the side you are trying to find should be the opposite. This should be an indication that you are to use tangent. And since you have the angle, you use Tangent instead of arcTan. Tangent = opposite/adjacent so you have tan63= X/50 tan63x50 = X 1.96 x 50 = 98.13 ft Now remember the device is 4 ft above ground so add 4 ft to that and you get 102.13

Again draw your triangle. You should have the angle as 20 degress, and the adjacent is 5000ft, and the side you are looking for is the opposite. Again you use tangent because you have the adjacent and are looking for the opposite. tan20=opposite/5000 tan20 x 5000= opposite 1819.85 ft is your opposite or your altitude from the tower.

100ft should be your opposite, and you are looking for the adjacent. tan 35=1000/adjacent adjacent=1428 So it is 1428 feet from the fire.