SOLUTION: You are 90 ft from a tree. The angle of elevation from your eyes, which are 5 ft off the ground, to the top of the tree is 70 degrees. to the nearest foot, how tall is the tree?

Question 428550: You are 90 ft from a tree. The angle of elevation from your eyes, which are 5 ft off the ground, to the top of the tree is 70 degrees. to the nearest foot, how tall is the tree?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the height of the tree
You have a right triangle
The base is 90 ft
The height is

The tree is 252 ft high
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