SOLUTION: Height of a post. Betty observed that the lamp post in front of her house casts a shadow of length 8 feet when the angle of inclination of the sun is 60 degrees. How tall is the la

Question 41104: Height of a post. Betty observed that the lamp post in front of her house casts a shadow of length 8 feet when the angle of inclination of the sun is 60 degrees. How tall is the lamp post? (In a 30-60-90 right triangle, the side opposite 30 is one-half the length of the hypotenuse.)
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you make a proper diagram, you discover that the 8 foot shadow is opposite the 30 degree angle...that means the hypotenuse is 16 feet and the height of the flagpole is 8*sqrt(3) feet tall...
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