document.write( "Question 1203029: Leilah, who is 1.7 m tall, is standing 8 m from a 5 m tall tree. She looks up to the top of the tree and measures the angle of elevation. What measure did she find? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "Leilah, who is 1.7 m tall, is standing 8 m from a 5 m tall tree.
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document.write( "The illustration is a right angled triangle with vertical leg of  5-1.7=3.3 meters \r\n" );
document.write( "and horizontal leg of  8 meters.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore, for the angle of elevation x we have this equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "    tan(x) =  =  = 0.4125.\r\n" );
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document.write( "It gives for the angle of elevation x\r\n" );
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document.write( "    x = arctan(0.4125) = 22.42°  (rounded).    ANSWER\r\n" );
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