A civil engineer is calculating the height of a tall tree. She stands 57 feet from the base of the tree and measures the angle of elevation from a point three feet above the ground to the top of the tree to be 72 degrees. To the nearest foot, what is the height of the tree?
A civil engineer is calculating the height of a tall tree. She stands 57 feet from the base of the tree and measures the angle of elevation from a point three feet above the ground to the top of the tree to be 72 degrees. To the nearest foot, what is the height of the tree?
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A civil engineer is calculating the height of a tall tree. She stands 57 feet from the base of the tree
and measures the angle of elevation from a point three feet above the ground to the top of the
tree to be 72 degrees. To the nearest foot, what is the height of the tree?
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A 129 ft
178 ft
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175 ft
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A civil engineer is calculating the height of a tall tree. She stands 57 feet from the base of the tree
and measures the angle of elevation from a point three feet above the ground to the top of the
tree to be 72 degrees. To the nearest foot, what is the height of the tree?
Answers A - D
A 129 ft
178 ft
C
175 ft
132 ft
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