Charlie is standing 250 feet from the base of a tall building. If he determines that the angle of elevation from the ground to the top of the building is 62o, how tall is the building?

Respuesta :

This situation can be visualized in the following diagram:

Where h is the height of the building. Using trigonometric functions, we see that:

[tex]\begin{gathered} \tan (62^{\circ})=\frac{h}{250ft}^{} \\ h=\tan (62^{\circ})\cdot250ft \\ h=470.18ft \end{gathered}[/tex]

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