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Given a Partial side length and two angles find the height of a given figure

The height of Mount Rushmore = H   ?

The faces on Mount Rushmore are 60 feet tall: h = 60 feet

Head at a 48 degree angle of elevation: α=48\ensurement

His chin at a 44.76 degree angle of elevation: β=44.76\ensurement

The distance to the mountain = d

Solution:

tan(β)=Hhdd=Hhtan(β)(1)

tan(α)=Hdd=Htan(α)(2)

(1) = (2):

Hhtan(β)=Htan(α)

tan(β)tan(α)=HhH=1hH

hH=1tan(β)tan(α)=tan(α)tan(β)tan(α)|

Hh=tan(α)tan(α)tan(β)

H=h(tan(α)tan(α)tan(β))

H=60(tan(48\ensurement)tan(48\ensurement)tan(44.76\ensurement))

H =  60 * 9.33639328817

H = 560.183597290 feet

The height of Mount Rushmore is 560.18 feet

8 sept. 2014