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A young girl looks out the window of an airplane flying at an altitude of 436 feet and sees a boat floating in the lake. If she looking at the boat at an angle of depression of 50 degrees, then how far is the boat from the plane, to the nearest tenth of a foot?

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678.3ft rounded but exact is 678.2955885ft
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