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A spherical ballon of radius r while floating in the sky, makes an angle `alpha` in the eye of viewer. If the angle of elevation of the centre of the ballon in the eye of the viewer be `beta`, show that the altitude of the centre of the ballon from the ground is `r cosec alpha/2 sin beta`.

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