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A Chemical Company located on the Carson River in Nevada has been dumping chemical waste into the river. A team of biologists is hired to study the affects of the pollutants. They need to know the width of the river to properly set up their equipment to complete the study. They place a marker on the riverbank and begin working to determine the distance directly across the river from this point. They walk 100 feet along the river and place a second marker. They determine that this second marker creates a 58˚ angle with the point across the river. Your job is to determine the distance across the river to the nearest hundredth of a foot.

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