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kondor19780726 [428]
2 years ago
14

It is night. Someone who is 4 feet tall is walking away from a street light at a rate of 8 feet per second. The street light is

12 feet tall. The person casts a shadow on the ground in front of them. How fast is the length of the shadow growing when the person is 3 feet from the street light?

Physics
1 answer:
KiRa [710]2 years ago
6 0

Answer: 4 ft/s

Explanation:

Given

height of man=4 ft

speed of person v=8 ft/s

height if street light=12 ft

Let x be the distance between person and street light and y be the length of his shadow

From diagram

as the two triangle ADE and ABC are similar therefore we can say that

\frac{4}{12}=\frac{y}{x+y}

\frac{1}{3}=\frac{y}{x+y}

x+y=3y

x=2y

differentiate above Equation w.r.t time we get

\frac{\mathrm{d} x}{\mathrm{d} t}=2\frac{\mathrm{d} y}{\mathrm{d} t}

\frac{\mathrm{d} y}{\mathrm{d} t}=\frac{8}{2}=4 ft/s

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