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) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let us see the tree and the shadow form a Right Triangle:


*The only unknwon side of the triangle is red%28a%29, that is the distance from the end of the shadow to the tree.

By Pyth. Theorem, a%5E2%2Bb%5E2=c%5E2
a%5E2=c%5E2-b%5E2=52%5E2-48%5E2=2704-2304=400
a=sqrt%28400%29
red%28a=20m%29, Answer

Thank you,
Jojo