A bird was sitting 16 feet from the base of an oak tree and flew 20 feet to reach the top of the tree. How tall is the tree?
1 answer:
Given:
A bird was sitting 16 feet from the base of an oak tree and flew 20 feet to reach the top of the tree.
To find:
The length of the tree.
Solution:
A bird was sitting 16 feet from the base of an oak tree.
Vertical distance between bird and base = 16 feet
Then the bird flew 20 feet to reach the top of the tree.
Now, the vertical distance between bird and base = (16+20) feet
So, length of the oak tree is it the sum of 16 feet and 20 feet.
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Therefore, the length of the oak tree is 36 feet.
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Step-by-step explanation:
The set of equations has no solutions if the two lines are parallel. A quick way to create a parallel line is to solve for y, put it in slope-intercept form. Else, as long as the cofficient of x and y are in the same ratio (in this case 1:1), the two lines are parallel, you just have to be careful not to pick the same line again!
The condition makes sure you are still getting lines (else you would get rid of both x and y); the condition
makes sure you're not picking line A again, just written in a different form.
Now that we have the options:
A and C have a different ratio for the coefficient of x and y (2:1 and 1:2) so are not good.
Choice B is just a more complicated way to write the same line, you can see by dividing both sides by 2 and get back x+y=2.
Line D is correct.