Homework Help: math-geometry

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 12:01pm.

a person in a boat sights the top of a lighthouse at an angle of elevation of 20 degrees. if the lighthouse is 40 feet tall find the distance from the base of the lighthouse to the boat.

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