Question

To find the height of a tower, a surveyor positions a transit that is 2 meters tall at a spot 35 meters from the base of the tower. She measures the angle of elevation to the top of the tower to be 37°. What is the height of the tower, to the nearest meter?
Draw a diagram and review your basic trig functions. It should be clear that
(h-2)/35 = tan37°
Now finish it off

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