A buoy is floating in the water near a lighthouse. The height of the lighthouse is 18 meters, and the horizontal distance from the buoy to the base of the lighthouse is 45 meters. What is the approximate angle of elevation from the buoy to the top of the lighthouse, rounded to the nearest whole degree?

Simonne used the following steps to simplify the given expression. 12-3(-2x+4) step 1: 12+(-)+(-3)(4) step 2: 12+6x+(-12) step 3: 12+(-12)+6x step 4: 0+6x step 5: 6x what property of real numbers was used to transition from step 3 to step 4? •identity property of addition •inverse property of addition •associative property of addition •commutative property of addition