SOLUTION: On a sunny day, a tree and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 52 m long and the tree is 48 m tal, how long is the shadow?
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Question 203747: On a sunny day, a tree and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 52 m long and the tree is 48 m tal, how long is the shadow?
Answer by jojo14344(1513) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let us see the tree and the shadow form a Right Triangle:
*The only unknwon side of the triangle is , that is the distance from the end of the shadow to the tree.
By Pyth. Theorem,
, Answer
Thank you,
Jojo
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