Question

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 is 50. to the nearest foot, the streetlamp is about _____.

Answer 1

Distance of the tip of the shadow from the street lamp = 15 + 8 = 23 feet

Height of lampstand =
`√(50^2-23^2) = √(2500-529) = √(1971) =44.4` feet