Question

What is the height of the beach sign?

Answer 1

To find the height of this umbrella you need to use the tangent function.

$tan 45 = \frac{8}{x}$
$(tan 45)(x) = 8$
$x = \frac{8}{tan 45}$
$x = \frac{8}{1}$
$x = 8$

The height of the umbrella is 8.

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