A tree casts a shadow that is 175 feet long. If the angle of elevation from the end of the shadow looking to the top of the tree is 30 degrees, how tall is the tree to the nearest hundredth? If the tree begins to fall and your car is parked 90 feet away from the tree, would you have to move your car? \

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,

use distributive property on all like terms and change your signs if you have a double negative or if you have positive/negative

2

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