Question

Dr. Black is standing 13 feet from a streetlamp. The lamp is making his shadow 9 feet long. He estimates that the angle of elevation from the tip of his shadow to the top of the streetlamp is 50. To the nearest foot, the streetlamp is about _____

Answer 1

Alright what you have here is a street lamp that is X feet tall. But first let me ask, do you know the Pythagorean theorem ?

Answer 2

The Pythagorean theorem is what youll be using

Answer 3

Are you still there?

Answer 4

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

^Pythagorean theorem

Answer 5

I'd like to help you if you are still there