Problema Solution
A street post standing vertically on level sureface cast a shadow of 6 meters. Find the tangent of angle that the rays of the sun make with the horizontal.
Answer provided by our tutors
The street post, the post's shadow and the rays of sun make a right triangle:
Let
'H' denotes the street post high
'a' denotes the angle the rays of the sun make with the horizontal
Then the tangent of angle that the rays of the sun make with the horizontal is:
tan(a) = H/6