SOLUTION: An employee looks out his office window at a factory across the street. He estimates his office building and the factory building are 60 ft apart, the angle of depression to the ba
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Question 1084346: An employee looks out his office window at a factory across the street. He estimates his office building and the factory building are 60 ft apart, the angle of depression to the base of the factory is 62°, and the angle of elevation to the top of the factory building is 23°.
How tall is the factory across the street? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You have 2 right triangles with a common side.
The common side is the shortest distance from the employee to
the other building.
Using the given data, I can say:
(1)
(2)
(3) = the height of the factory building
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(1)
(1)
and
(2)
(2)
and
(3)
(3)
Convert the decimal to inches
The factory is 138 ft 4 in tall approximately
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