Question

What is height of the pole?

Answer 1

im going to predict this is a pytnagorean theorem problem

Answer 2

Or a Trig prob

Answer 3

I so far

Answer 4

Subtracted 100 from 64 to get 36 and I think its tangent.

Answer 5

what tangent ? you don't have any angle

Answer 6

90 degrees?

Answer 7

DC = 36

Answer 8

no, any other angle

Answer 9

oh.

Answer 10

its 36 i think !!

Answer 11

choices ?

Answer 12

36 is a choice but DC equals 36?

Answer 13

Yup !!

Answer 14

So DC = AD?

Answer 15

wait a second

Answer 16

hint-
\(\triangle BDA \textbf{ is similar to } \triangle ADC\)

try setting up a proportion

Answer 17

64 - 36 = 28?

Answer 18

why subtract ?

Answer 19

nope you need to setup proportion

Answer 20

Second nature.

Answer 21

how?

Answer 22

is this q from similar triangles module ?

Answer 23

No its a segment review.

Answer 24

wait.. mastercat do you have any factor or multiple of 36 in Choices ??

Answer 25

hint 2 -

\(\frac{BD}{AD} = \frac{DA}{DC}\)

Answer 26

10 feet

8 feet

48 feet

36 feet

Answer 27

I get 48 feet

Answer 28

which seems logical from the drawing.

Answer 29

How?

Answer 30

I guess it does.

Answer 31

Do you know how to set up the relation between the similar triangles?

Answer 32

\[ \frac{x}{64}=\frac{36}{x} \]

Answer 33

DA^2 = 64*36
DA = 8*6
= 48.. lol :P i was wrong

Answer 34

Oh.

Answer 35

Sometimes, although it can get visually complicated, it can help to draw the similar triangles "inside each other. You can do that by flipping the triangle ADC by 90° counterclockwise