Answer:
height of the leaning tower of pisa is 179 feet
it makes a 5.1 degrees from the vertical.
it's angle to the ground would be 90 - 5.1 = 84.9 degrees.
the height of the vertical would be one leg of a right triangle.
to find the vertical height of the tower, we would take the sine of 84.9 using the formula:
sine (84.9) = opposite divided by hypotenuse.
opposite i x
hypotenuse is 179
formula becomes:
sine (84.9) = x/179
multiply both sides of this equation by 179 to get:
x = 179 * sine (84.9)
this results in:
x = 178.2913507 feet
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