You are 5 feet tall and cast a 10 foot shadow a flagpole nearby cast a shadow that is 28 feet which equation can you use to solv
e for the height (h) of the flagpole
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Answer:
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Step-by-step explanation:
Two angles are supplements of one another if their sum is .
Two angles are complements of one another if their sum is .
Let be the measure of the angle in question.
The supplement of this angle would be .
The complement of this angle would be .
According to the question:
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Solve this equation for :
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Thus, this angle would measure should .
The supplement of this angle would measure . The complement of this angle would measure
.
Three times the complement of this angle would be , which is indeed
greater than the supplement of this angle.