practical easy way to discover height or elavation?
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There's a forester's tool called a clinometer. Look it up online and get one, or you can go to the local high school and see if the ag department has one there you can borrow. They are very accurate. I use them in foresty competitions with the FFA.
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HOW CAN I FIND OUT MORE WITHOUT LEAVING MY HOUSE
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Diamond-Square is a great height-map generation algorithm. It's kind of cool that something that simple could create realistic landscapes.
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The easist way is to just type it into a Google search and it will do it for you.  So if you type: 4ft into inches  then it will give you this answer: http://www.google.com/search?hs=mUM&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=4ft+to+inches&btnG=Search\n\nNeat huh?
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1. Click the Tools menu.\n2. Select the Options command.\n3. Click the General tab.\n4. For Measurement Units, choose Inches.\n5. Click OK.
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Laser range finder. Although you could use plum bob, trigonometry,  altitude of both peaks and an observation point between them to figure it out. You need to observe the angle you have to look upwards from a point between the two. There is a lovely diagram sitting on my desk that is just a little to complex to ASCII.
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you can calculate the height of an object if you know a) the distance you (or some other reference point) are from it, and b) the degree of the angle from the ground where you are to the top of the object. tan(angle A) = A/B where A is the height and B is the distance. 2 of the three have to be given, i.e. you have to measure the angle with a protractor or something.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darts#Height_and_distance
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To find area you multiply the length times the width. It's pretty easy once you know
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actually its not\n the answer would be (sin(30degrees)*200)+5\nsin(30degrees) is .5\n.5*200 = 100 +5 = 105 feet in elevation\n\ndraw a picture and label everything as much as possible, you eralize that you have the length of a hypotenuse, so you take teh sin of the angle then multiply by the length of the hypotenuse to get the length of the opposite side, that gives you teh height from eye level, you now must add the level you are looking from (5ft)\n\nhope this helps!!
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Go to a proper doctor physician and he will examine you fully. He will tell t=you the exact predicted end height you will be as an adult.\n\nHe can also look at your sexual development and judge how far you still have to go before you stop growing.\n\nIf your parents would have doubled your height on your second birthday you would then know your adult height.  ask them if they have this in writing anywhere.
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Just multiply the three numbers together - length * width * height.
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try the census. you may find something there.
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Here's one: Measure the density of air.\n\nTake a flask, weigh it.\nVacuum out all the air, then weight it again.
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Check out http://www.healthchecksystems.com/heightweightchart.htm
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Check out the height calculator at http://www.allaboutmoms.com/allaboutmoms/heightpredictor.htm
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Make it something that's easy to answer and won't upset anyone.  Stay away from politics, ethnicity, weight, etc....\n\n\nDid you want a numerical value to use the normal or a yes/no to use the binomial?\n\nFor a numerical height is pretty good.  You could ask about books read, newspapers.  Consumption, etc\n\nWhat makes height good is that most people will answer and you'll get a reasonable spread of answers.\n\nAlso, look at the type of examples that your text used.