SOLUTION: the sun hits a building of unknown height so that the building casts a shadow of 410 feet if the angle of elevation of the sun is 16, how tall is the building?

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tan(16°) = ,


where H is the unknown height and L is the length of the shadow.


From this equation  H = L*tan(16°).


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