ANGLE OF ELEVATION

The school is currently going to renovate the college building, Vince is a construction worker who
volunteered to fix one of the walls of the college building that is currently crumbling due to the cracks
and needs replacement. Therefore, he needs to know the height of the building to determine the
appropriate length of the ladder needed to reach the top safely and replace the wall with a new one with
the exact measurement pf the previous one. Vince stands on the base 1300 cm away from the college
building and his eye level is 158.496 cm above the ground. He uses a ladder that forms an angle of
elevation of 60 degrees with the ground to reach the top of the building. what is the height of the college
building?

Solution:
x
Tan60 = 1300 X = 2251.67cm + 158.496cm
tan 60 x
1
=
1300
X = 2410.166cm

X= 1300tan60