Acontractor is checking the height of the frame for a building his company is constructing. he stands at some distance from the building and measures the angle of elevation to be 73 degrees. he moves back 10 feet and measures the angle to be 68 degrees. how tall is the building?

  about 102 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

From the definition of the cotangent function, we can write ...

  h·cot(α1) = d1

  h·cot(α2) = d2

Where h is the building height and (α1, d1), (α2, d2) are (elevation angle, distance from the building) for the two cases.

We have d2 - d1 = 10 ft, so ...

  h(cot(68°) -cot(73°)) = 10 ft

  h = (10 ft)/(cot(68°) -cot(73°)) ≈ (10 ft)/(0.404026 -0.305731) ≈ 101.73 ft

The building is about 102 feet tall.

none of the above.

for one of the equations to be used in the process, there has to be a term in the equation since squared is .

since there is only a term in the first equation, we cannot derive a from completing the square.

solving with completing the square

5 x 14?

im new, sorry if this is wrong.

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