You are six feet tall and measure the angle between the horizontal and a bird in the sky to be 40o. You can see that the shadow of the bird is directly beneath the bird, and 200 feet away from you on the ground. How high is the bird in the sky?

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You are six feet tall and measure the angle between the horizontal and a bird in the sky to be 40o. You can see that the shadow of the bird is
directly beneath the bird, and 200 feet away from you on the ground. How high is the bird in the sky?
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Angle between horizontal and bird = 40

Shadow from man = 200 ft

Height of Man = 6 ft

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