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Some friends are at the beach looking out onto the ocean on a clear day and they wonder how far away the horizon is. A second problem asks how far the horizon would be from the top of a mountain. Students must also answer a question about the proportionality of triangle side lengths. Aligns with G-MG.A.1, G-SRT.B.5, and G-MG.A.
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geometric model, mathematical model, tangent to circle, use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems, cc by-nc-sa 4.0, ccss.math, creative commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike 4.0, desmos, g-mg.a, g-mg.a.1, g-srt.b.5, hsg-mg.a.1, hsg-srt.b.5, how far is the horizon?, illustrative mathematics, illustrative mathematics: g-srt, g-mg how far is the horizon? hsg-srt.b.5, hsg-mg.a.1, right triangle, use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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