SOLUTION: Find the length of the shadow cast by a 1.8 meter tall boy when the sun is 72 degrees above the horizon.
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Question 1116478: Find the length of the shadow cast by a 1.8 meter tall boy when the sun is 72 degrees above the horizon.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the length of the shadow cast by a 1.8 meter tall boy when the sun is 72 degrees above the horizon.
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It's a right triangle.
The length is either 1.8*sin(72), or 1.8*cos(72)
You have to know which it is.
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