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a tree is 20 ft tall. You measure the angle to the top of the tree and get 20 degrees how far are you from the tree
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a tree is 20 ft tall. You measure the angle to the top of the tree and get 20 degrees how far are you from the tree

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Using tangent, you would get an answer of around 54.949548389096. Tangent would equal: tan(20 degrees = 20/x wand upon solving x equals the answer above.
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