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Right triangle word problems

Archimedes went to sleep beside a big rock. He wanted to get up at 77 AM, but the alarm clock was yet to be invented! He decided to sleep at the spot where the rock's shadow should end when it's 77 AM so as to be awakened by the direct sunlight.
Archimedes knew that at 77 AM, the sunlight reaches the ground at an angle of 3131^\circ. The rock beside which he slept was 55 meters tall.
How far from the rock did Archimedes go to sleep?
Round your final answer to the nearest hundredth.
meters