City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2017 Engineering Question 49
Practice objective / multiple choice question 49 from the 2017 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Engineering examination.
A surveyor measures the height of a building using a theodolite. The instrument height is \(1.6\) m and the horizontal distance from the building base is measured as \(30.0\) m (±0.05 m). The angle of elevation recorded is \(35.0^{\circ}\) with an instrument error of ±0.2°. Determine the building's height and the maximum absolute error, using linear error propagation (express the final height to two decimal places).
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This is City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2017 Engineering Question 49. It is one of the objective questions from the 2017 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Engineering examination.
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