Question

Dr. Black is standing 15 feet from a streetlamp. The lamp is making his shadow 8 feet long. He estimates that the angle of evelation from the tip of his shadow to the top of the streetlamp is 50 degrees. To the nearest foot, the streetlamp is about

Answer please ( no picture, a word problem )

Answer 1

it's 27 feet. just 27 don't add the decimal values or it'll count it as wrong

Explanation

trigonometry

Answer 2

the base of the triangle is 15 + 8 = 23 feet
and the angle is 50 degrees
to find the height of the street lamp
multiply the base ( 23) by the Tan(50)
tan(50) x 23 = 27.41 feet rounded to nearest foot would be 27 fee