SOLUTION: karen wanted to measure the height of her school's flagpole. she placed a mirror on the ground 46 feet from the flagpole, and then walked backwards until she was able to see the to
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Question 1153699: karen wanted to measure the height of her school's flagpole. she placed a mirror on the ground 46 feet from the flagpole, and then walked backwards until she was able to see the top of the flagpole in the mirror.
write and solve an equation set-up to find the height of the flagpole to the nearest hundredth of a foot.
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two similar (right) triangles.
y, the height of flagpole
------------you finish.
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