SOLUTION: You must order a new rope for the flagpole. To find out what length of rope is needed, you observe that the pole casts a shadow of 9.2 meters on the ground. The angle of elevation
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Question 1203439: You must order a new rope for the flagpole. To find out what length of rope is needed, you observe that the pole casts a shadow of 9.2 meters on the ground. The angle of elevation of the sun is 32 . How tall is the flagpole? (Round your answer to the nearest tenth, as necessary.)
Answer by math_tutor2020(3816) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Draw a right triangle.
The horizontal leg is 9.2 meters long. The vertical leg is the unknown height x.
tan(angle) = opposite/adjacent
tan(32) = x/9.2
x = 9.2*tan(32)
x = 5.74879803756581
x = 5.7 meters is the approximate height of the flag pole.
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