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Brilliant_brown [7]
3 years ago
10

At a certain time of day, a tree that is x meters tall casts a shadow that is x−46x−46 meters long. if the distance from the top

of the tree to the end of the shadow is x+4x+4 meters long, what is the height, x, of the tree?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Alexus [3.1K]3 years ago
5 0
By the Pythagorean theorem,
.. x^2 +(x -46)^2 = (x +4)^2
.. 2x^2 -92x +2116 = x^2 +8x +16
.. x^2 -100x +2100 = 0
.. (x -50)^2 -400 = 0
.. x = 50 ±20 . . . . . only x=70 makes any sense in the problem

The height, x, of the tree is 70 meters.
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