SOLUTION: A street post standing vertically on level sureface cast a shadow of 6 meters. Find the tangent of angle that the rays of the sun make with the horizontal.
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Question 1019533: A street post standing vertically on level sureface cast a shadow of 6 meters. Find the tangent of angle that the rays of the sun make with the horizontal.
Answer by FrankM(1040) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Tangent is opposite over adjacent.
The tan of this angle is post height/6
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