An engineer on the ground is looking at the top of a building. The angle of elevation to the top of the building is 22°. The engineer knows the building is 450 ft tall. What is the distance from the engineer to the base of the building to the nearest whole foot?

GEOMETRY QUESTION

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An engineer on the ground is looking at the top of a building. The angle of elevation to the top of the building is 22°. The engineer knows the building is 450 ft tall. What is the distance from the engineer to the base of the building to the nearest whole foot?

GEOMETRY QUESTION

anonymous · Answer

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One of your most powerful tools here is visualization so let us do that
When an engineer looks from the ground up to a building we can identify that as an angle of "elevation" as so
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