You are standing 60 feet away from a five-story building in Los Angeles, looking up at its rooftop. Your eyes are approximately five feet above the ground. In the distance you can see the billboard on top of your hotel, but the hotel building is completely obscured by the building in front of you. If your hotel is 32 stories tall and the average story is 10 feet high, how far away from your hotel are you? OHint:

You are standing 60 feet away from a five-story building in Los Angeles, looking up at its rooftop. Your eyes are approximately five feet above the ground. In the distance you can see the billboard on top of your hotel, but the hotel building is completely obscured by the building in front of you. If your hotel is 32 stories tall and the average story is 10 feet high, how far away from your hotel are you? OHint:

Algebra and Trigonometry (6th Edition)

6th Edition

ISBN:9780134463216

Author:Robert F. Blitzer

Publisher:Robert F. Blitzer

ChapterP: Prerequisites: Fundamental Concepts Of Algebra

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1MCCP: In Exercises 1-25, simplify the given expression or perform the indicated operation (and simplify,...

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