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From the top of a light house, angles of depression of two ships are `45^(@) and 60^(@)`. The ships are on opposite sides of the ight house and in line with its foot. If the distance between the ships is 400 m, find the height of the light house.

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`(400sqrt(3))/(sqrt(3)+1)`.
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