A detective knows what time of day it is based on the angle at which the sun is hitting a man. Suppose a detective is looking at a photograph of a 6-foot tall man with a shadow that is 3.5 feet. Find the angle at which the sun is hitting the ground.

The angle at which the sun is hitting the ground is:

Step-by-step explanation:

You can use right angle trigonometry to solve this, since the man (6 ft tall) and the shadow on the ground (3.5 ft long) form a right angle triangle as shown on the attached image.

The use the tangent function to find the angle that the sun's rays make with the ground:

b

step-by-step explanation:

given

- 2 (3x + 12y - 5 - 17x - 16y + 4 )

simplify the parenthesis by collecting like terms

= - 2 (- 14x - 4y - 1) ← distribute the parenthesis by - 2

= 28x + 8y + 2 → b

y=mx+b is the final answer!   : )