SOLUTION: A surveyor is standing 100 meters from a bridge. She find the angle of elevation to the top of the bridge is 35 degrees. Her eye level is 1.45 meters. Find the bridge's height.

Question 1030295: A surveyor is standing 100 meters from a bridge. She find the angle of elevation to the top of the bridge is 35 degrees. Her eye level is 1.45 meters. Find the bridge's height.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
So make a right triangle with an opposite side of and adjacent side of .

So then add the height of her eye level to get the bridge height.

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