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OpenStudy (anonymous):

10. To find the height of a pole, a surveyor moves 140 feet away from the base of the pole and then, with a transit 4 feet tall, measures the angle of elevation to the top of the pole to be 44°. To the nearest foot, what is the height of the pole? (1 point) 145 ft 149 ft 135 ft 139 ft

OpenStudy (anonymous):

To answer this question first you set up a picture to look like a right triangle, then you just do right triangle trig. to find the height of the pole, find the angles in side the triange

OpenStudy (anonymous):

then use those angles, sine tangent cosine not sure which one i didnt do the problem, and do the trig. on a graphing calculator and you should get your answer

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Okay so I used the tangent one and I got 135.1 and so the answer would be 135 feet then? If I am understanding how this is suppose to work,

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