Kili is standing in a parking lot on a sunny day. He is 1.6 m tall and casts a shadow that is 4.8 m long. Draw a scale diagram of the situation that can be used to measure the angle at which the suns rays hit the ground?

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ask_if_im_a_ghost · Answer

The resulting drawing will be a right triangle. The man and the shadow will be the legs of the triangle.

anonymous · Answer

Yeah that's as far as I got but it also wants me to find the angle at which the suns rays hit the ground.. The back of the text book says 18.5 but I have no idea how to get that

anonymous · Answer

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ask_if_im_a_ghost · Answer

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