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Betty observed that the lamp post in front of her house casts a shadow of length 8 feet when the angle of inclination of the sun is 60 degrees. How tall is the lamp post?(In a 30-60-90 right triangle, the side opposite 30 is one-half the length of the hypotenuse.)

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