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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A pile of corn makes an angle of 27.5 with the ground. If the distance from the center of the pile to the outside edge is 25ft, how high is the pile

OpenStudy (fibonaccichick666):

use a similar picture that is labelled correctly, but right idea

OpenStudy (fibonaccichick666):

you will be using a trig function to determine the length of the height

OpenStudy (campbell_st):

oops misread the question here is the correct diagram |dw:1421699941026:dw| now you need to find the height using the tan ratio. hope it helps

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