SOLUTION: if the angle of elevation of the sun is 29 degrees, and the shadow is 70 feet long, How tall is the building?
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Question 1152142: if the angle of elevation of the sun is 29 degrees, and the shadow is 70 feet long, How tall is the building?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if the angle of elevation of the sun is degrees, and the shadow is feet long, how tall is the building?
Now you multiply both sides by to get:
You can do this in your calculator.
Round the the nearest integer:
feet.
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