SOLUTION: Jenny needs to determine the height of a tree, the angle of elevation from her eyes is 45 degrees. She is standing 6 yards from the tree. The distance from the ground to her eyes i
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Question 1029747: Jenny needs to determine the height of a tree, the angle of elevation from her eyes is 45 degrees. She is standing 6 yards from the tree. The distance from the ground to her eyes is 5ft. How tall is the tree?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Top of tree, Jenny's eyes, and point directly to nearest distance to tree from eyes forms isosceles special 45-90-45 triangle.
... tree height is 6 yards 5 feet.
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