SOLUTION: Hey! We started learning trigonometry a couple of days ago and I am having difficulty with it, I also have a quiz tomorrow. Please help me, here is the question: Find, to the near

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Question 238318: Hey! We started learning trigonometry a couple of days ago and I am having difficulty with it, I also have a quiz tomorrow. Please help me, here is the question:
Find, to the nearest degree, the angle of elevation of the sun when a man 6 feet tall casts a shadow 4 feet long.

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Find, to the nearest degree, the angle of elevation of the sun when a man 6 feet tall casts a shadow 4 feet long.
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tangent of the angle = 6/4
angle = 56º