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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Jessica is standing 20 feet away from a skyscraper in New York when she measures the angle of elevation to the top of the building as 88.8°. To the nearest foot, how tall is the building?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1. convert 88.8 to radians 2. use the tangent function y/x where y is the height and x is 20ft it should be 20tan((37/75)(pi)) ~ y ~ 955ft rounded to the nearest ft.

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