Question

A flagpole that is 45-feet high casts a shadow along the ground that is 52-feet long. What is the angle created by ground and sun ray creating the shadow?

Answer 1

Answer:
`a = 40.87`°

Explanation:
`tan(a) = (h)/(d)`

where h is equal to the height of the flagpole and d to the length of the shadow. a is alpha, the angle between the sun ray and the ground

atan(h/d) = a