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A surveyor is standing 118 feet from the base of the Washington Monument. The surveyor measures the angles between the ground and the top of the monument to be 78 degrees. Find the height of the Washington Monument.

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The height of the Washington monument is 555.146.

I got this by using trigonometry “tan(77) • 118”
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