Question

Find the angle of elevation of the sun when a 6m high pole makes shadow of length 2underroot3m on the horizontal plane.
a. 300 b. 450 c. 600 d. 900

Answer 1

I believe you could make a right triangle and use tangent to find the angle. It would be: \[\Theta =\tan^{-1} (6.0/Your Shadow Length)\]