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When a farmer is standing 80 feet from a silo, he must look up

at an angle of 52 degrees relative to the Horizontal to see the top
of the silo. How tall is the Silo?

User Dyp
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Answer:

102.40 ft

Explanation:

This system can be described as a right triangle with the horizontal distance from the silo (80 ft) being the side adjacent to the 52-degree angle, and the height of the silo (h) being the side opposite to the angle. Therefore, the height can be found by:


tan(52) = (h)/(80)\\ h=102.40\ ft

The silo is 102.40 feet tall.

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