Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer

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Chapter 4 - Section 4.8 - Applications of Trigonometric Functions - Exercise Set - Page 639: 65

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An example is to measure the height of a tall tree using its shadow (from the Sun), length, and the elevation angle by using the fact that the tangent of the angle is the ratio of the height and the shadow length.
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