The altitude of the base of a cloud formation is called the ceiling. To find the ceiling one night, a meteorologist directed a spotlight vertically to the clouds. Using an instrument placed 83 meters from the spotlight and 1.5 meters above the ground, she found the angle of elevation of the light's image on the clouds to be 62°43. What ceiling did she find?
The altitude of the base of a cloud formation is called the ceiling. To find the ceiling one night, a meteorologist directed a spotlight vertically to the clouds. Using an instrument placed 83 meters from the spotlight and 1.5 meters above the ground, she found the angle of elevation of the light's image on the clouds to be 62°43. What ceiling did she find?
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The altitude of the base of a cloud formation is called the ceiling.
To find the ceiling one night, a meteorologist directed a spotlight
vertically to the clouds. Using an instrument placed 83 meters from
the spotlight and 1.5 meters above the ground, she found the angle
of elevation of the light's image on the clouds to be 62°43. What ceiling did she find?
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