The light from a lamppost casts a shadow of a man who is standing 15 feet away from the lamppost. The man's shadow is 5 feet long. The angle of elevation from the tip of the shadow to the lamp is 50 degrees. To the nearest foot, the lamppost is ______ feet tall.
The Pythagorean theorem is true for all similar triangles
A: true
B: False
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