Question

Help a girl out please !
Town 1 and Town 2 are situated 4 km apart on the bank of a river. The school and the church are 2 km apart situated on the other bank of the river. The market is situated 3 km away from the school, as shown below. How far is the school from Town??
3 km

8 km

6 km

12 km

Answer 1

You need to use similar triangles.

Answer 2

How ?

Answer 3

3/x = 2/4
Solve for x

Answer 4

is it 6?

Answer 5

The length of the side of the smaller triangle over the length of the side of the larger triangle = the length of the base of small over length of base of large.

Answer 6

6 is the length of the whole side (the distance from the market to town 1. need to subtract 3.

Answer 7

so the answer would be 3 km

Answer 8

so 3 is the answer ?

Answer 9

okay thanks