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SSSSS [86.1K]
3 years ago
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A 6-foot tall man casts a shadow that is 12 feet long. What is the measure of the sun's angle of elevation? Enter your answer, r

ounded to the nearest degree, in the box.

Mathematics
1 answer:
Masteriza [31]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

27^{\circ}

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent the sun's angle of elevation.

We have been given that a 6-foot tall man casts a shadow that is 12 feet long.

Upon looking at our attachment we can see that man and his shadow forma a right triangle with respect to ground, where height of man is opposite side and his shadow is adjacent side.

Since tangent relates opposite side of a right triangle with adjacent, so we can set an equation as:

\text{tan}=\frac{\text{Opposite}}{\text{Adjacent}}

\text{tan}(x)=\frac{6}{12}

\text{tan}(x)=\frac{1}{2}

Using arctan we will get,

x=\text{tan}^{-1}(\frac{1}{2})

x=26.565051177078^{\circ}\approx 27^{\circ}

Therefore, the measure of the sun's angle of elevation is 27 degrees.

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