SOLUTION: A tree grows vertically on a slope which has an incline of 24 degrees. When the sun is at an elevation of 48 degrees, the tree casts a shadow of 92 feet directly down the slope.

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Question 1121033: A tree grows vertically on a slope which has an incline of 24 degrees. When the sun is at an elevation of 48 degrees, the tree casts a shadow of 92 feet directly down the slope.
Find the height of the tree in feet.
Answer by ikleyn(52910)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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More than million of different valid solutions/answers are possible,  depending on relative positions of the bodies

(the incline,  the tree and the sun)  in  3D  space,  in which we live.


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As a reminder:   we all live in  3D - not in the  2D  section of the  3D  space.


But if you want to pose the problem in this 2D vertical section/plane, then it should be accurately stated in the problem formulation,

with clear explanation where the sun is located relative to the incline and the tree.


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