Question

Your friend is trying to calculate the height of a nearby oak tree. You tell him that you learned how to use similar triangles in Geometry class. You tell your friend to measure his height (75 inches) and you measure the length of his shadow (48 inches). Both of you measure the length of the tree’s shadow (38 feet). How tall is the tree (in feet)? Round to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

@MTALHAHASSAN2

Answer 2

@Directrix

Answer 3

@CausticSyndicalist

Answer 4

what we have to find

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@wio

Answer 6

Im not sure how to do this problem

Answer 7

first convert everything to feet

75 inches * (1 ft/12 inches) = 6.25 feet

48 inches * (1 ft/12 inches) = 4 feet

Answer 8

then set up the drawing

Answer 9

we see these corresponding sides



because the triangles are similar, we can set up this proportion

x/6.25 = 38/4

solve for x to get your answer