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" ... 25 ft. long, leans against a house and reaches to a point 21.6 ft. from the ground. Find the angle between the ladder and the house, and the distance the foot of the ladder is from the house. Why are we able to solve an example like this by trigonometry... "
Plane Trigonometry - Page 52
by Elmer Adelbert Lyman, Edwin Charles Goddard - 1899 - 91 pages
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Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

Elmer Adelbert Lyman - Trigonometry - 1900 - 218 pages
...the sun when a tree 71.5 ft. high casts a shadow 37.75 ft. long? 2. What is the height of a balloon directly over Ann Arbor when its elevation at Ypsilanti,...height of the mountain above the base of the tower. 5. From a point in the street between two buildings the elevation angles of the tops of the buildings...
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Plane and Spherical Trigonometry

Preston Albert Lambert - Trigonometry - 1905 - 120 pages
...the tower subtends an angle of 49'. How long is the pole ? 11. The Washington monument is 555 feet high. How far apart are two observers who from points...the monument at elevations of 23° 20' and 47° 30'? 12. From the top of a hill the angles of depression to two consecutive milestones, which are in a direction...
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Plane Trigonometry

Fletcher Durell - Plane trigonometry - 1910 - 348 pages
...we able to solve an example like this by trigonometry when we are not able to do so by geometry ? 9. The Washington Monument is 555 ft. high. How far apart are two observers 555 who from points due west of the monument observe its angles of elevation to be 25° and 48° 17'...
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Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables

Fletcher Durell - Logarithms - 1911 - 336 pages
...we able to solve an example like this by trigonometry when we are not able to do so by geometry ? 9. The Washington Monument is 555 ft. high. How far apart are two observers 555 who from points due west of the monument observe its angles of elevation to be 25° and 48° 17'...
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General Mathematics, Book 1

Raleigh Schorling, William David Reeve - Mathematics - 1919 - 522 pages
...surveyor measured off 71 ft. on aline BC perpendicular to A C. He theiifoundZ6M7?=53°. Find .4 C. 1 1 . The Washington Monument is 555 ft. high. How far apart are two observers who from points due west of the monument observe its angles of elevation to be 20° and 38° respectively ? (See Fig. 274.)...
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