There are more inches on a football field (100 yards) than there are centimeters on a 28 meter basketball court. True or false?
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Answer:
8 feet
Step-by-step explanation:
First, draw a picture. The pole is 22 feet tall. Katherine is 5.5 feet tall. She is 24 feet from the pole. The light from the top of the pole to the tip of her shadow forms two similar right triangles. The length of her shadow is x.
Now use similar triangles to write a proportion:
22 / (24 + x) = 5.5 / x
Cross multiply:
22x = 5.5 (24 + x)
Distribute:
22x = 132 + 5.5x
Combine like terms:
16.5x = 132
Divide:
x = 8
The shadow is 8 feet long.
Answer:
D. 2/7
Step-by-step explanation:
The probability is calculate as a division between the number of ways in which Andrew will be selected and karen will not and the total ways in which they can select 4 people from a group of 8 volunteers.
The number of ways in which they can select 4 people from a group of 8 volunteers can be calculated using:
Where nCk give as the number of ways in which we can form groups of k elements from a group of n elements.
So, if we replace n by 8 and k by 4, we get:
Then, there are 70 ways to select 4 people from a group of 8 volunteers.
At the same way, the number of ways in which Andrew will be selected and karen will not can be calculate replacing n by 6 and k by 3 in the same equation as:
We replace n by 6 because from the 8 volunteers, Andrew is going to be selected and Karen will not, so, the people that affect the result are just the 6 remaining volunteers. Also, k is equal to 3 because Andrew is already selected and we just need to select 3 more people.
Finally, the probability is: