A forester from his vantage point on a hillside sees a puff of smoke in a valley below him. He measures the angle of depression (the acute angle between the horizontal and the line of sight) to the smoke from his position to be 21°13'15" (see figure below). Find the measure of ?PSF in degrees, minutes and seconds.


48° 46' 45"

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