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A fountain of water is located at the center of a circular pool. Not wishing
to get his feet wet, a student walks around the pool and measures its
circumference to be 16.5 m. Next, the student stands at the edge of the pool
and uses a protractor to gauge the angle of elevation at the bottom of the
fountain to be 55.0°. How high is the fountain?
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