SOLUTION: please help me out with this A communication company erects a 81-foot tall cellular telephone tower on level ground. Determine the angle of depression, theta(in degree), from t

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A communication company erects a 81-foot tall cellular telephone tower on level ground. Determine the angle of depression, theta(in degree), from the top of the tower to a point 59 feet from the base of the tower. Round answer to the decimal places.

Answer by mananth(16949)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

here perpendicular = 81 feet
base = 59 feet
So = 81/59= 1.3728
= 54 deg

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