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Bao Yu is standing 90 m from the foot of a flagpole. The flagpole is 11 m tall. What is the angle of elevation of the top of the flagpole from Bao Yu?

 Oct 10, 2015
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We can use the tangent inverse to answer this  :

 

tan-1 ( 11 / 90)   ≈ 6.97°

 

 

 

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 Oct 10, 2015
edited by CPhill  Oct 10, 2015

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