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jagger68
04.02.2020 • 
Mathematics

Asix-foot person walks from the base of a broadcasting tower directly toward the tip of the shadow cast by the tower. when the person is 122 feet from the tower and 3 feet from the tip of the shadow, the person's shadow starts to appear beyond the tower's shadow.
(a) draw a right triangle that gives a visual representation of the problem. show the known quantities of the triangle and use a variable to indicate the height of the tower.

(b) use a trigonometric function to write an equation involving the unknown quantity h.
(c) what is the height of the tower?

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