About Chanda Walker Expertise I can answer word problems involving mathematics at the high school and college level. I particularly enjoy calculus word problems. Please don't just type the math problem without comments. If you don't tell me what problem your having, I can't help.
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Question A vertical telegraph pole standing alongside an inclined highway casts a 52 foot shadow down the incline directly along the highway when the angle of elevation of the sun is 55 degrees. If the height of the pole is 65 feet, find the angle of inclination of the highway.
Answer Let's form a triangle whose sides are the pole, the hill, and the edge of the shadow.
It says that sun is at 55 ELEVATION. But we need the angle relative to the pole and that is 90 -55 = 35
The angles of the triangle are:
35+ theta + alpha = 180
where theta is the angle of interest to us.
