A six-foot person walks from the base of a broadcasting tower directly toward the tip of the shadow cast by the tower. When the person is 122 feet from the tower and 3 feet from the tip of the shadow, the person's shadow starts to appear beyond the tower's shadow.
ADraw a right triangle that gives a visual representation of the problem. Show the known quantities of the triangle and use a variable to indicate the height of the tower.
BUse a trigonometric function to write an equation involving the unknown quantity h.
CWhat is the height of the tower?
ADraw a right triangle that gives a visual representation of the problem. Show the known quantities of the triangle and use a variable to indicate the height of the tower.
BUse a trigonometric function to write an equation involving the unknown quantity h.
CWhat is the height of the tower?
