Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus, 7th Edition

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1305071751
ISBN 13: 978-1-30507-175-9

Chapter 6 - Review - Test - Page 532: 21

Answer

$554ft$

Work Step by Step

Use the figure given in the problem, assume the short side of the right triangle with $85^\circ$ has a length of $x$, we have $tan85^\circ=\frac{h}{x}=11.430$ and $tan75^\circ=\frac{h}{x+100}=3.732$ The first equations gives $x=\frac{h}{11.430}$, use it in the second equation to get $h=3.732\times(\frac{h}{11.430}+100)$ solve for $h$ to get $h\approx554ft$
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