SOLUTION: Help me solve this,Two flat houses A and B of the same height are 1.6km apart.john stands at a point p 3 times far from flat house B as he is from A so that his actual distance fro
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Question 1203893: Help me solve this,Two flat houses A and B of the same height are 1.6km apart.john stands at a point p 3 times far from flat house B as he is from A so that his actual distance from P to the top of B is 1.3km.Calculate the distance from point P to flat house A,and the height of the flat houses Answer by greenestamps(13198) (Show Source):
The distance from A to B is 1.6km; and P is 3 times as far from B as from A. That makes P 0.4km from A and 1.2km from B.
The top of B is 1.3km from P, so we have a right triangle with hypotenuse 1.3km, one leg 1.2km, and the height of B for the other leg. That makes the height of B 0.5km.
ANSWERS:
P is 0.4km from A
The height of A and B is 0.5km
