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From a window 15 metres high above the ground in a street, the angles of elevation and depression of the top and the foot of another house on the opposite side of the street are `30^0a n d45^0` respectively show that the height of the opposite house is 23.66 metres `(t a k esqrt(3)=1. 732)`

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