AT A POINT ON A LEVEL GROUND THE ANGLE OF ELEVATION OF A TOWER IS FOUND TO BE SUCH THAT ITS TANGENT IS 5/12 . ON WALKING 192 TOWARD THE TOWER THE TANGENT OF ITS ANGLE FOUND TO BE 3/4 . FIND THE HEIGHT OF TOWER?
We have the following situation-
Let the height of the tower be h.
In triangle ACD
........(1)
In triangle ABC
Use equation (1)in the above to get,