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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 1:03pm.

A tower casts a shadow 22 feet long. If the angle of depression lookig down from the top of the tower to the tip of the shadow is 14 degrees, what is the height of the tower

math - bobpursley, Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 1:47pm
height/22=cosine 14
height=22cos14

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