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An engineer is standing 250 meters away from a building. She measures the angle of elevation to the top of the building to be 30 degrees. How tall is the building, rounded to the nearest meter?

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Answer:

144m

Explanation:

we would used tan 30 to determine the height of the building

tan 30 = opposite / adjacent

0.5774 x 250 = 144m

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