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3 years ago

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Lily is standing at horizontal ground level with the base of the Sears Tower. The angle formed by the ground and the line segmen

t from her position to the top of the building is 15.7°. The Sears Tower is 1450 feet tall. Find Lily's distance from the Sears Tower to the nearest foot.

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Inessa05 [86]3 years ago

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This is the concept of trigonometry, the distance of Lily from the tower will be given by:
tan theta=[opposite]/[adjacent]
opposite=1450 ft
adjacent=x ft
theta=15.7
thus;
1450/x=tan15.7
hence;
x=1450/tan15.7
x=5,158.54 ft
x=5,159 (to the nearest foot)

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