Question

An aerial camera is suspended from a blimp and positioned at D. The camera needs to cover 125 meters of ground distance. If the camera hangs 10 meters below the blimp and the blimp attachment is 20 meters in length, at what altitude from D to B should the camera be flown?

31.25 m
62.5 m
150 m
250 m

Answer 1

@dude

Answer 2

These triangles are similar (one is larger than the other)

Answer 3

You want to find the height, so use a proportion to find out the height of the larger triangle

Do you know how to do it?

Answer 4

no ish

Answer 5

wait no i got it

Answer 6

i got it nevermind

Answer 7

\(\large \frac{length_s}{height_s}=\frac{length_L}{height_L}\)

s= small triangle
L = larger triangle

But yeah they gave you the length and height of the smaller one

\(\large \frac{20}{10}=\frac{125}{x}\)