There is extra info here that could about drive you nuts. If you constructed right triangles from this scenerio, both the triangles would look identical. We have base angles of 90 (where the light goes into the ground, assuming the light pole is straight up in the air and not threatening to fall over on one of these people, ending their trig nightmare...) and another base angle of 28. We have the heights of these people as 6, so what we have is a right triangle with a base angle of 28 and a height across from that angle as 6. We need the length of the hypotenuse of this triangle which can be found very easily using the tangent sin ratio: [tex]sin(28)= \frac{6}{x} [/tex] which gives us that x=12.78 feet
