A water tower is located 415 feet from a building. From a window in the building, an observer notes that the angle of elevation to the top of the tower is 37° and that the angle of depression to the bottom of the tower is 21°. How tall is the tower?
1 Answer
Apr 19, 2015
The height of the building would be 415 tan 37 + 415 tan 21. On evaluating it would come out to be 472 ft (nearest whole number).
