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Jimmy, who is five and a half feet tall, sees a bird at the top of a tree and wonders how tall the tree is. Jimmy stands 18 feet from the tree. Jimmy takes an inclinometer (a device used to calculate angles of elevation) and measures the angle created from his horizontal gaze and the bird to be 50 degrees. How tall is the tree?

User Mani Ratna
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Answer:

100

Explanation:

it is 50 when he sees it in a horizontal line so double it to see how much it is if it where straight

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