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From an aeroplane vertically above a straight horizontal road, the angles of depression of two consecutive mile stones on opposite sides of the aeroplane are observed to be `alphaa n dbeta` . Show that the height in miles of aeroplane above the road is give by `(tanalphatanbeta)/(tanalpha+tanbeta)`

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