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Shadow length
The length
(a) Verify that the expression for
(b) Use a graphing utility to create a table of the lengths
(c) Use your table from part (b) to determine the angle of the sun that results in the minimum length of the shadow.
(d) Based on your results from part (c), what time of day do you think it is when the angle of the sun above the horizon is
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