SOLUTION: A woman standing on the top of a hill sees a fag pole that she knows is 14 meter tall. The angle of depression to the bottom of the pole is 35 degrees and the angle of elevation t

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Question 1026412: A woman standing on the top of a hill sees a fag pole that she knows is 14 meter
tall. The angle of depression to the bottom of the pole is 35 degrees and the angle of elevation to the top of the pole is 7 degrees
1. Find her distance from the flag pole.
2. Given that the flag pole is placed on the same ground level as the hill and the woman is 1.73 meter tall. How high is the hill?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) About Me  (Show Source):
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Two right-triangles formed share a common side, being distance from the woman to the nearest point of the flag pole.
u for upper part of the pole
d for lower part of the pole
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system%28tan%287%29=u%2Fx%2Ctan%2835%29=d%2Fx%2Cu%2Bd=14%29
Three equations in three unknown variables will allow for solving u, d, and especially x.

The analysis of question 1 takes that question only on its own and does not have any use of question 2 information. This means, that from feet or from eyes-level, the woman's height was ignored for question 1.