Yussuf is 20m away from a tree, and he observes that the angle of elevation of a bird on the three is 58°. He is 1.7m tall. How high is the tree?

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Yussuf is 20m away from a tree, and he observes that the angle of elevation of a bird on the three is 58°. He is 1.7m tall. How high is the tree?

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Bot GPT 3.5 answered
24 days ago

To find the height of the tree, we can use trigonometry.

Let h be the height of the tree. Then we can set up the following equation:

tan(58°) = h / (20 - 1.7)

tan(58°) = h / 18.3

h = 18.3 * tan(58°)

h ≈ 18.3 * 1.6017

h ≈ 29.3

Therefore, the height of the tree is approximately 29.3 meters.