You want to determine the height of a monument at a local park. You use a cardboard square to line up the top and bottom of the monument. Mary measures the vertical distance from the ground to your eye and the distance from you and the monument. Approximate the height of the monument.

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anonymous · Answer

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jennychan12 · Answer

is the 5.5 ad 7.5 ft the two bottom parts of the triangle?

jennychan12 · Answer

whoops 7.2 sorry

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

does that help?

anonymous · Answer

Is the 7.2 the slant? Like this? |dw:1357965405344:dw|

anonymous · Answer

no... 7.2 was written on the line where you have places 5.5... and 5.5 was placed in the smaller triangle

anonymous · Answer

I'm not sure how to do this... I know how to do pythagorean theorem but I'm not sure with just the measure given. I think you probably do something with the 90 degrees. But you can take a look at this page, it might help you out. Sorry. :o( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem

anonymous · Answer

ok ill check this out... thanks anyways :)

anonymous · Answer

Anytime :o) If you still cant figure it out and I can try to look into it more for you the best I can. :o)

anonymous · Answer

ok thx :)