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A surveyor needs to find the distance across a straight river. Markers are set up at points A and B on opposite sides of the river (see diagram), and at point CC that is 290 feet from B, the angle C is measured and found to be 45∘19.8′You may assume angle B is a right angle.
The distance from A to B is feet.
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