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-foot-tall street lamp casts a 16.5
-foot-long shadow. Use the reciprocal functions and the Pythagorean Theorem, as necessary, to determine the distance from the top of the lamppost to the farthest part of the shadow. What is the angle at which the street lamp casts its shadow?

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A 30 -foot-tall street lamp casts a 16.5 -foot-long shadow. Use the reciprocal functions-example-1
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