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A man that is 6 feet tall is standing so that the tip of his shadow is 20 feet from a light pole. His shadow is 8 feet long. Wha

t is the height of the pole?

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pychu [463]2 years ago

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Answer:

The answer to your question is: the height of the light pole is 15 ft.

Step-by-step explanation:

See the picture below

Now, we can do proportions to finds the height of the light pole

$\frac{20}{8} = \frac{x}{6}$

Solve for x

x = 6(20) / 8

x = 120 / 8

x = 15 ft

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$s^2 X(s)-s-1+4sX(s)-4+6X(s)=\cfrac 1s -\cfrac1{s-1}$

$s^2 X(s)-s-5+4sX(s)+6X(s)=\cfrac 1s -\cfrac1{s-1}$

Moving all terms that do not have X(s) to the other side

$s^2 X(s)+4sX(s)+6X(s)=\cfrac 1s -\cfrac1{s-1}+s+5$

Factoring X(s) and moving the rest to the other side.

$X(s)(s^2 +4s+6)=\cfrac 1s -\cfrac1{s-1}+s+5$

$X(s)=\cfrac 1{s(s^2 +4s+6)} -\cfrac1{(s-1)(s^2 +4s+6)}+\cfrac {s+5}{s^2 +4s+6}$

Partial fraction decomposition method.

In order to apply Inverse Laplace Transform, we need to separate the fractions into the simplest form, so we can apply partial fraction decomposition to the first 2 fractions. For the first one we have

$\cfrac 1{s(s^2 +4s+6)}=\cfrac As + \cfrac {Bs+C}{s^2+4s+6}$

So if we multiply both sides by the entire denominator we get

$1=A(s^2+4s+6) + (Bs+C)s$

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$1=\cfrac 16(s^2+4s+6) + (Bs+C)s$

$6=s^2+4s+6 + 6Bs^2+6Cs$

We can simplify a bit

$-s^2-4s= 6Bs^2+6Cs$

And by comparing coefficients we can tell the values of B and C

$-1= 6B\\B=-1/6\\-4=6C\\C=-4/6$

So the separated fraction will be

$\cfrac 1{s(s^2 +4s+6)}=\cfrac 1{6s} +\cfrac {-s/6-4/6}{s^2+4s+6}$

We can repeat the process for the second fraction.

$\cfrac1{(s-1)(s^2 +4s+6)}=\cfrac A{s-1} + \cfrac {Bs+C}{s^2+4s+6}$

Multiplying by the entire denominator give us

$1=A(s^2+4s+6) + (Bs+C)(s-1)$

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So we get

$A = \cfrac1{11}$

We can replace that on the previous equation and multiply all terms by 11

$1=\cfrac 1{11}(s^2+4s+6) + (Bs+C)(s-1)$

$11=s^2+4s+6 + 11Bs^2+11Cs-11Bs-11C$

Simplifying

$-s^2-4s+5= 11Bs^2+11Cs-11Bs-11C$

And by comparing coefficients we can tell the values of B and C.

$-s^2-4s+5= 11Bs^2+11Cs-11Bs-11C\\-1=11B\\B=-\cfrac{1}{11}\\5=-11C\\C=-\cfrac{5}{11}$

So the separated fraction will be

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So far replacing both expanded fractions on the solution

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We can combine the fractions with the same denominator

$X(s)=\cfrac 1{6s} -\cfrac {1/11}{s-1}+\cfrac {-s/6-4/6+s/11+5/11+s+5}{s^2 +4s+6}$

Simplifying give us

$X(s)=\cfrac 1{6s} -\cfrac {1/11}{s-1}+\cfrac {61s/66+158/33}{s^2 +4s+6}$

Completing the square

One last step before applying the Inverse Laplace transform is to factor the denominators using completing the square procedure for this case, so we will have

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Notice that the denominator has (s+2) inside a square we need to match that on the numerator so we can add and subtract 2

$X(s)=\cfrac 1{6s} -\cfrac {1/11}{s-1}+\cfrac {61(s+2-2)/66+316 /66}{(s+2)^2 +(\sqrt 2)^2}\\X(s)=\cfrac 1{6s} -\cfrac {1/11}{s-1}+\cfrac {61(s+2)/66+194 /66}{(s+2)^2 +(\sqrt 2)^2}$

Lastly we can split the fraction one more

$X(s)=\cfrac 1{6s} -\cfrac {1/11}{s-1}+\cfrac {61(s+2)/66}{(s+2)^2 +(\sqrt 2)^2}+\cfrac {194 /66}{(s+2)^2 +(\sqrt 2)^2}$

Applying Inverse Laplace Transform.

Since all terms are ready we can apply Inverse Laplace transform directly to each term and we will get

$\boxed{X(s)=\cfrac 1{6} -\cfrac {1}{11}e^{t}+\cfrac {61}{66}e^{-2t}\cos(\sqrt 2t)+\cfrac {97}{66}\sqrt 2 e^{-2t}\sin(\sqrt 2t)}$

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