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23-05-2015
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A photographer’s camera sits on a tripod that is 1.8 m above the ground. The base of the tripod is 44 m from the base of a tree. The photographer spots a woodpecker in the tree at a 39° angle of elevation.

To the nearest tenth of a meter, how high above the ground is the woodpecker?

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23-05-2015

I found 37.4 m.
I tried using trigonometry and the tangent of an angle (in this case 39°):

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