Question

Find the height of the tree shown.

Answer 1

Where's the diagram?

Answer 2

It's suppose to be 36 and the bottom base 24.

Answer 3

So do I do 36^2 + 24^2, then square root the solution?

Answer 4

Round to the nearest tenth.

Answer 5

So I got 35.1

Answer 6

Or do I round it to 35.2?

Answer 7

No, you don't add them and take the square root. That only works if you have two legs. Plug the numbers into pygathorean's equation.

Answer 8

sorry, I missed something, you are suppose to subtract it