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A surveyor measures the angle of elevation at 20 degrees for a point 5 miles away. What is the vertical change in elevation from the point where the surveyor is standing to the point 5 miles away?

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The vertical change is 1.81985 miles.
I'm not sure how many digits after the decimal you need, so I typed out five.
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