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Jacob is standing 112 m from a building. The angle of elevation when he looks up to the top of the building is 62°.

How tall is the building?

I don't really understand how to solve this, please help!!

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draw a diagram.
review your basic trig functions.

It should be clear that if the height is h,

h/112 = tan62°

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