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the angle of elevation from ed to the top of the lighthouse is 45 degrees. the horizontal distance between the lighthouse and ed is 19m. What is the height of the lighthouse?
 Oct 22, 2013
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The solution is quite simple: the angle of 45 degrees presumes that cos 45 : sin 45 = 1. The horizontal line stands here for cos 45, while the vertical one - the height - stands for sin 45. Since their aspect ratio is 1:1 then the height is also 19 meters.
 Oct 22, 2013

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