a 12 meter flage pole casts a 9 meter shadow. find the angle of the elevation of the sun

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Answer 1

draw a right triangle with the vertical leg 12 m and the horizontal leg 9 m

the hypotenuse is 15 m because this is a 3-4-5 right triangle (3*3, 3*4, 3*5)

you can use the sin ,cos, or tan function to find the angle along with the arcsin, arccos, or arctan function

sin^-1 0.8=53.13010235º=53º 7' 48.368"

cos^-1 0.6 and tan^-1 1.3333... will yield the same answer