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CAT 2018 Trigonometry — Previous Year Question

Year

CAT 2018

Section

Quantitative

Topic

Trigonometry

Difficulty

Medium

Question

Slot-1

A boat, stationed at the North of a lighthouse, is making an angle of 3030^\circ with the top of the lighthouse. Simultaneously, another boat, stationed at the East of the same lighthouse, is making an angle of 4545^\circ with the top of the lighthouse. What will be the shortest distance between these two boats? The height of the lighthouse is 300300 feet. Assume both the boats are of negligible dimensions.

300 feet

6003\frac{600}{\sqrt{3}} feet

3003\frac{300}{\sqrt{3}} feet

600 feet

None of the above

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