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The light from a lamp casts a shadow of a man standing 10 feet away from the lamppost. The shadow is 7 feet long. The angle of elevation fro shadow to the lamp is 50° To the nearest foot, the lamppost
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The light from a lamp casts a shadow of a man standing 10 feet away from the lamppost. The shadow is 7 feet long. The angle of elevation fro shadow to the lamp is 50° To the nearest foot, the lamppost is _______feet tall.

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The lamppost is 20 feet long.

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