To find the height of a tree, a person walks to a point 30 feet from the base of the tree and measures the angle from the ground to the top of the tree to be 57 degrees. What is the height of the tree? Give your answer as a decimal with one place of accuracy to the right of the decimal point.
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Step 1:** Identify the given values: - Angle of elevation = 57 degrees - Distance from the base of the tree to the point where the angle is measured = 30 feet ** Show more…
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