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Dr. Black is standing 15 feet from a streetlamp. The lamp is making his shadow 8 feet long. He estimates that the angle of elevation from the tip of his shadow to the top of the street lamp 50 degrees.
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Dr. Black is standing 15 feet from a streetlamp. The lamp is making his shadow 8 feet long. He estimates that the angle of elevation from the tip of his shadow to the top of the street lamp 50 degrees. To the nearest foot, the streetlamp is about

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check the picture below.
Dr. Black is standing 15 feet from a streetlamp. The lamp is making his shadow 8 feet-example-1
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