Question

A Flagpole casts a 60 foot long shadow on the ground. The angle from the tip of the flagpole to the end of the flagpole's shadow measures 35 degrees. How tall is the flagpole?

Draw a picture and label. Thank you.
<u>you<u> draw a picture fer pete's sake!

Then, having reviewed your basic trig functions, you will see that the height h is found from

h/60 = cot35°</u></u>
can i use cos(55degrees) = 60/h
which gives me 104.61.
Please check. Thanks!
no cosine. the hypotenuse does not come into the calculation.

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