Question 8:
A statue, 1.6 m tall, stands on a top of pedestal, from a point on the ground, the angle of elevation of the top of statue is 60° and from the same point the angle of elevation of the top of the pedestal is 45 °. Find the height of the pedestal.
Answer:
Let AB be the statue, BC be the pedestal, and D be the point on the ground from where the elevation angles are to be measured.
Therefore, the height of the pedestal is 0.8 (√3 + 1)m.
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