4.1.4 practice: modeling: leaning towers.. geometry apex ’t figure out how to do this

Observe attached picture.

Letter a marks lean. Letter b marks height of leaned tower. Letter c marks length of side of tower.

a=7.4 feet
b=94 feet
c=?

From the picture we can see that we have right-angle triangle. We can use pythagorean theorem to solve for c.


We can use law of sines to solve for lean angle:

We will use part:


Tower makes angle of 85.4° with respect to ground or 4.6° with respect to vertical line.