SOLUTION: Kristen places her surveyors telescope on the top of a tripod 5 feet above the ground. She measures an 8 degree elevation above the horizontal to the top of a tree that is 120 feet

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Question 646468: Kristen places her surveyors telescope on the top of a tripod 5 feet above the ground. She measures an 8 degree elevation above the horizontal to the top of a tree that is 120 feet away. How tall is the tree?
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Tangent is the opposite divided by the adjacent, so , so



Use your calculator. Don't forget that because of the height of the theodolite tripod, is 5 feet less than the height of the tree.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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