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On a sunny day, a tree and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 52 m long and tree is 48 m tall, how long is the shadow?
Again, I do not
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On a sunny day, a tree and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 52 m long and tree is 48 m tall, how long is the shadow?
Again, I do not know where to begin to solve this problem. Please help!
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The lengths of the sides of a right triangle always have this relationship where and are the lengths of the legs of the triangle and is the length of the hypotenuse: , which can also be written as from which you get . Just plug in the lengths of the hypotenuse and one leg for and and then do the arithmetic to find .
You might also notice that and which would be meaningful if you also remembered that a triangle with sides of 13, 12, and 5 is always a right triangle.
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