Question

From a boat on the lake, the angle of elevation to the top of a cliff is 24 degree 19'. If the base of the cliff is 2994 feet from the boat, how high is the cliff (to the nearest foot)?
Draw a diagram
Review your basic trig functions. You can see that
h/2994 = tan 24°19'
h = 1352.9 ft

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