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From the top of a 100 foot high pole, an observer measures the angle of depression of a car on the road as 28 degrees. Find, to the nearest hundredth of a foot, the distance from the car to the base of the pole.

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AlyssaM5624

This is a quick sketch of the problem

the answer is about 235.31 ft

you have to use this equation to get the length of the other side, which is roughly 213 ft:

[tex]100 \div \sin(28) [/tex]

then it's just Pythagorean Theorem to get the end result:

[tex] {100}^{2} + {213}^{2} = {c}^{2} [/tex]

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