A vertical pole casts a shadow along the level ground. What is the angle of elevation of the sun from the ground when the length of the shadow is 55 55% of the height of the pole? Give your answer in degrees and round to 2 decimal places

16

Step-by-step explanation:

We must find integers x, y with the most amount of prime divisors, not necessarily distinct, such that x + 3y < 1,000.

Obviously, this is achieved when the divisor is the least prime 2. So, we must find integers n, m such that

since , then n must be 9. For n=9 we find the greatest integer m such that  

and we find m=7

 and   ,  are the numbers we are looking for and the sum of their length is 9+7 = 16.

So, 16 is the maximum possible sum of the length of x and the length of y.