SOLUTION: If the sun is 55° above the horizon find the length of the shadow cast by your building 96 feet tall

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Question 1157523: If the sun is 55° above the horizon find the length of the shadow cast by your building 96 feet tall
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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Draw this, and the building height is the opposite side from the vertex of the angle of elevation to the sun.
the length of the shadow is adjacent to that angle, so tan 55=96/x
x=96/tan 55=67.2 feet