Question

Write your own real-world scenario where the Pythagorean Theorem can be applied to find a missing piece. You may choose to write a problem that is two- or three-dimensional in nature. Be sure that you will be able to draw a diagram of your scenario.
Write out your problem and submit it for Part 1. Be sure to end your scenario with a question.

Answer 1

what are your ideas?

Answer 2

I don't know

Answer 3

welll, you could apply it in a problem where you need to determine the height of a building using you distance from it and the length of the shadow

Answer 4

From a lamp post four feet away from her, Sandra looks up at a in the sky. Diagonally, that bird is five feet away from her above the lamppost. How high up is the bird.

Answer 5

just think of any problem where you know two sides of a triangle and need to find the third

Answer 6

The light from a lamp casts a shadow of a man standing 10 feet away from the lamppost. The shadow is 7 feet long. The angle of elevation from the tip of the shadow to the lamp is 50. To the nearest foot, the lamppost is _____ feet tall.

Answer 7

can I do this one instead

Answer 8

that one works great

Answer 9

20.26 ft is the height of the lamppost

Answer 10

would that one work

Answer 11

that's the answer

Answer 12

I think that is the answer.

Answer 13

would that work for part 1

Answer 14

how did you solve it?

Answer 15

In the figure attached. AB is the lamp post and DE is a man standing 10 ft away from the lamp post.Therefore, in ΔABC,term 50° = AB/BC term 50° = AB/17 .192 = AB = 17 × 1.192= 20.26 ft.Therefore, Lamppost is 20.26 ft. tall.

Answer 16

well if his shadow is 7 feet long an hes 10 feet away, wouldnt that make the distance between his shadow and the light post 3 feet?

Answer 17

I don't know