Sue wants to determine the height of a tree indirectly. It's shadow is 15 feet when she is at 48° angle of elevation with the sun that is behind a tree.

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Seulgi · Answer 1 · 2018-10-15T13:16:01+0000

The tree is 13.51 feet.

Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent

Tree is x.

tan48=15/x (Because x is the denominator of the fraction, you will DIVIDE 15 with the tangent of 48.)

15/tan48=13.51

Sue wants to determine the height of a tree indirectly. It's shadow is 15 feet when she is at 48° angle of elevation with the sun that is behind a tree.

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