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TSI Math: Using Proportions to Find the Height of a Shadow 24 Views
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Arya went for a walk in the woods and came upon a tree in an open field. The tree cast a 72-foot shadow. If Arya is five feet tall and cast a six-foot shadow, then how many feet tall is the tree?
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Okay sy math people We have a whole section here
- 00:05
on modeling A different kind of modeling area went for
- 00:10
a walk in the woods and came upon a tree
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in an open field The tree cast a seventy two
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foot shadow If area is five feet tall and cast
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- 00:18
a six foot shadow Well then how many feet tall
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is the tree Cool question All right well the treated
- 00:27
open field sounds picture ask very game of thrones e
- 00:30
now make a super unpick shirt a diagram of the
- 00:34
situation here aria and her shadow and the tree and
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its shadow form two similar triangles like this The triangles
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are similar because both aria and the tree stand perpendicular
- 00:44
to the ground and the sun shines on both of
- 00:47
them at the same angle right Similar triangles have proportional
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sides right so let's let h stand for the height
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of the tree instead of her proportion here So height
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is to shadow as h is to seventy two as
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five to six right are yet to tree and feet
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cross multiply to solve and we've got six h is
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seventy two times five or six h is three sixty
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Divide both sides by six and we get that age
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is sixty feet The height of the tree is sixty
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feet so that's it The answer is being and four 00:01:17.295 --> [endTime] smoked along with aria
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