A woman entering an outside glass elevator on the ground floor of a hotel glances up to the top of, the building across the street and notices that the angle of elevation is 53°. She rides the elevator up three floors (60 feet) and finds that the angle of elevation to the top of the building across the street is 31°. How tall is the building across the street? (Round to the nearest foot.) ft Need Help? Read It Watch it

A woman entering an outside glass elevator on the ground floor of a hotel glances up to the top of, the building across the street and notices that the angle of elevation is 53°. She rides the elevator up three floors (60 feet) and finds that the angle of elevation to the top of the building across the street is 31°. How tall is the building across the street? (Round to the nearest foot.) ft Need Help? Read It Watch it

PREALGEBRA

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Chapter9: Math Models And Geometry

Section9.3: Use Properties Of Angles, Triangles, And The Pythagorean Theorem

Problem 108E: On a map, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles form a triangle whose sides the shown in the...

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