Question 3 At 11:05 a.m. a man in a parachute is 8000 feet above the ground. At 11:08 a.m. the same man is 5400 feet above the g
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SOLUTION
Let us use a simple diagram to interprete the question
In the diagram above, the dark stuff below represents the shadow and the rectangular bar represents the building. I have labelled the height of the building as h.
So we will use the right-angled triangle formed to find h
As we can see h represents the opposite side and 56.5 feet represents the adjacent side of the right-angle triangle. So we will use TOA
So we have
Hence the answer is 104.9 feet to the nearest tenth
