Asked by Math's boy

The angle of elevation of the top of vertical tower from a point on the ground 60. From another point 10m vertically above the first , its angle of elevation 45. Find the height of the tower.
Answered by Anonymous
It's so hard
Answered by jolly rancher
for the first point you have
tan(60) = height/adjacent

for the second point you have
tan(45) = (height - 10m)/adjacent

so height/tan(60) = (height - 10m)/tan(45)

put in the values for each tangent and solve for height

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