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What Is The Height of The Tree On The Left

1) The height of the tree on the left is 48.8 inches based on the trigonometric ratio of tangent. 2) The height of a tree is 43 feet away from a point on level ground with a 30 degree angle of elevation is found using trigonometry and the law of sines to be 21.3 feet. 3) To find the ladder length needed to reach the third floor of a leaning tower from a point 10 feet away with a 108 degree angle between the tower and ground and a 20 degree angle between the tower and ladder, one draws a triangle with the information given and uses the law of sines, determining the ladder length needed is 27.8 feet.

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What Is The Height of The Tree On The Left

1) The height of the tree on the left is 48.8 inches based on the trigonometric ratio of tangent. 2) The height of a tree is 43 feet away from a point on level ground with a 30 degree angle of elevation is found using trigonometry and the law of sines to be 21.3 feet. 3) To find the ladder length needed to reach the third floor of a leaning tower from a point 10 feet away with a 108 degree angle between the tower and ground and a 20 degree angle between the tower and ladder, one draws a triangle with the information given and uses the law of sines, determining the ladder length needed is 27.8 feet.

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1. What is the height of the tree on the left?

HIDE ANSWER
tan(16)= 14/height
height =14/tan(16) = 48.8 "
2. The angle of elevation from a point 43 feet from the base of a tree on level ground to
the top of the tree is 30. What is the height of the tree? Round your answer to the
nearest tenth
SHOW ANSWER

Step 1
First, you should draw and label a picture of this word problem.

Step 2
The illustration

Rest of Step
Now, set up your trig ratio and solve for a side length:

3. You are standing 10 feet away from a certain leaning tower. Find the ladder length that is
needed to reach the third floor of the leaning tower if the ladder is placed where you are
standing. The angle that is formed by the tower and the ground is 108 degrees, and the
angle formed by the tower at the third floor and the ladder will be 20 degrees.
We begin by first drawing out our problem. We draw our triangle and label it with the information that
is given.

Okay. We see that the side we want to find is the ladder side. We can arbitrarily label that with a.
Because we are dealing with any kind of triangle, it doesn't matter which side we label with a, b, or c.
If we label the ladder side as a, then our angle A is 108, the angle opposite our side a. We can go
ahead and label the 10 as side b. Our angle B is then 20.

Looking at what we have now, we see that we only need the first two parts of our law of sines to find
our answer: a/sin A = b/sin B. Plugging in our values, we geta/sin 108 = 10/sin 20. Using algebra to
help us solve for a, we get a = (10/sin 20)*sin 108 = 27.8. We have found our answer. The ladder
length that is needed is 27.8 feet.

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