Lisa sees a nest with baby birds high in a tree. She decides to use trigonometry to estimate how high the nest is. Lisa walks 15 feet from the base of the tree. She measures an angle of elevation from the ground to the nest of 62º. Find how high the nest is above the ground, to the nearest foot. (Enter the number only.)

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anonymous · Answer

this means that (tan 62)=x/15

where x is the height of the tree,
this means x is (tan 62) times 15 which is equal to 28.21 feet approx

the height of Lisa is neglected