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A boy standing at the edge of a canal sees the top of a tree at an elevation of '70^circ .' 35^0Stepping 10 metres back, he sees It at an elevation of '25^circ'. The boy is 1.5 metres tall. How wide is the canal and how tall is the tree?
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