Question

John is looking at the eagle on top of a building The height of the building is 120 ft Approximately how many feet is Jack away from the base of the building?

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A triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles. Types of triangles are scalene, acute, obtuse, isosceles, equilateral and right angled triangle.

A right angled triangle is a triangle with one angle equal to 90 degrees. The longest side of a right angled triangle is known as the hypotenuse. Trigonometric identities is used to show the relationship between the angles and sides of a right angled triangle, i.e.:

sinθ = opposite/hypotenuse; cosθ = adjacent / hypotenuse; tanθ = opposite / adjacent

From the image:

let the distance from jack to the base of the building be x, hence:

tan60 = x / 60

x = 60 * tan60 = 104 ft.