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A man is standing on the deck of a ship, which is 40m above water level. He observes the angle of elevation of the top of a hill as `60^(@)` and the angle depression of the base of the hill as `30^(@)`. Calculate the distance of the hill from the ship and the height of the hill, `(sqrt(3)=1.732)`.

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69.28 m
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