Question

Professor Plum is standing 10 feet from a streetlamp. The light from the lamp is making his

Answer 1

Answer:

15.10 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

It would be helpful to draw the figure from the problem statement above. Drawing it, would give you a right triangle shape where the base is equal to 10 ft + 8 ft = 18 ft with the angle of 40 degrees. We use knowledge on trigonometric functions to solve this.

tan (theta) = opposite side / adjacent side

tan 40 = x / 18

x = 15.10 ft

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