A person is standing 14.3m from the base of a tree. The angle of elevation to the top of the tree is 68 degrees. How tall is the tree? Answer to 1 decimal place.

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SCooke
Jun 22, 2018

35.3 feet

Explanation:

The appropriate trigonometric value for adjacent and opposite sides of an angle is the tangent.
tan(68) = x/14.3 ; x = 14.3xxtan(68)

x = 14.3 xx 2.47 = 35.3 feet

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