A large pole is 148 feet tall, at noon the pole casts a 225 foot shadow. Whats the sun's elevation.

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The pole and its shadow form a right-angled triangle of height 148 ft and base 225 ft.
The ground angle at the base has a tangent of 148/225. So the angle is tan^-1(148/225)=33.34 degrees, which is the sun's angle of elevation.
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