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The 15 m high building is 30 m away from the river bank. The river's width can be seen from the roof of this building at an angle of 15 °. How wide is the river?
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- expression of a variable from the formula
- planimetrics
- right triangle
- triangle
- goniometry and trigonometry
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- cosine
- tangent
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