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A flag-post is placed on the top of a building of height 200 m. The angles of elevation of the top of the flag-post observed from the foot and the top of another nearby building of height 150 m, are 60° and 30° respectively. Find the height of the flag-post.

(A) 25 m
(B) 37.5 m
(C) 75 m
(D) 100 m
(E) 115 m
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A flag-post is placed on the top of a building of height 200 m. The 01 Dec 2019, 05:41
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It is a kind of tricky question: Angles of Elevation & Depression.
—> need to use the Trigonometry

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A flag-post is placed on the top of a building of height 200 m. The angles of elevation of the top of the flag-post observed from the foot and the top of another nearby building of height 150 m, are 60° and 30° respectively. Find the height of the flag-post.

(A) 25 m
(B) 37.5 m
(C) 75 m
(D) 100 m
(E) 115 m
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Since Trignometry is not a part of GMAT syllabus, isn't this question out of the GMAT ambit?
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