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The angle of elevation of a stationary cloud from a point h meter above a lake is `15^(@)` and angle of depression of its reflection in the lake is `beta`. Prove that height of the cloud above the lake is `(h(tanbeta+tanalpha))/(tanbeta-tanalpha)`.

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