SOLUTION: The science club wants to find out the height of the school's flagpole. They found that if the rope attatched to the top of the pole was lengthened, it formed an angle of 60 degree

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Question 630267: The science club wants to find out the height of the school's flagpole. They found that if the rope attatched to the top of the pole was lengthened, it formed an angle of 60 degrees with the ground, 14ft. from the base of the pole. What is the height of the pole?
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if the rope attached to the top of the pole was lengthened, it formed an angle
of 60 degrees with the ground, 14ft. from the base of the pole.
What is the height of the pole?
:
We can use the tangent of 60 degrees where:
side opposite = height of the pole
side adjacent = 14 ft
:
tan(60) = h%2F14
h = 14 * 1.732
h = 24.25 ft is the height of the pole