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If the distance from the too of the building to the tip of its shadow is 150ft, what is the length of the buildings shadow

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In order to know the length of the shadow, we will use a trigonometric function in this case for the data given and the distance we want to find we will use the sine


\sin (75)=(S)/(150)

we isolate S


S=\sin (75)\cdot150=144.89

the length of the shadow is 144.89ft

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