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A 10-meter high flagpole casts a shadow 6 meters long How long is the shadow of a nearby bush that is 3 meters tall?
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1.8 meters. The ratio of object to shadow is 10:6. Therefore if the object is 3, the shadow is 1.8 ( 6/10x3).
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If a 42.9 ft tall flagpole casts a 253.1 ft long shadow then how long is the shadow that a 6.2 ft tall woman casts.?
It is approx 36.6 ft.
If a 30 foot flagpole casts a 12 foot shadow how tall is a mailbox casting a 18 inch shadow?
First find the angle of elevation by using the tangent ratio formula:tangent = opposite (the flagpole)/adjacent (the shadow)tangent = 30/12 = 68.19859051 degreesThen rearrange the formula to find the height of the mailbox:height of mailbox = 18*tangent 68.19859051 = 44.99999......Therefore: height of mailbox = 45 inches to the nearest inch.Or,Since we have two similar right triangles whose legs are the 30 feet flagpole and its 12 feet shadow, the length x of mailbox and its 18 inches shadow, we have:18 in/x = 12 ft/30 ft (cross multiply)(12)(x) = (30)(18 in)12x = 540 in (divide by 12 to both sides)x = 45 in
What is the height of a flagpole if a person 5 feet tall casts a 10 foot shadow at the same time that the flagpole casts a 40 foot shadow?
The flag pole would be 20 feet. (You can see that the shadows are twice as long.) At a given time of the day, the length of a shadow cast by any object will have the same relationship to its actual height as all other objects. Here the ratio is 5/10 = x/40 and multiplying both sides by 40, 20 = x.
What is the height of a flagpole that casts a 40 foot shadow?
To calculate that, you'd need to know the angle of the light source or the time of day or have some other object to compare it to.
The shadow cast by a house is 55 feet long.At the same time a flagpole that is 15 feet tall casts a 25 foot long shadow.How tall is the house?
25
A flagpole casts a shadow of 40 ft nearby a 10-ft tree casts a shadow of 2 ft what is the height of the flagpole?
Ten is to two as 40 is to x, yielding: 200ft.
A flagpole casts a shadow 28 feet long a person standig nearby casts a shadow eight feet long if the person is six feet how tall is the flagpole?
21 ft how is the equation to give you this result
If a flagpole cast a shadow of 7.7m and a pole cast a shadow of 1.2m how tall is the flagpole?
5
If a tree casts a shadow of fifteen meters long how tall is the tree?
Not enough information has been given to solve this problem such as: What is the angle of elevation?
A flagpole casts a ten meter shadow at the same time as a six meter statue beside it casts a two meter shadow What is the height of the flagpole?
The statue is 6/2 = 3 times the length of its shadow. The flagpole is 3 times its shadow ie the flagpole is 3*10 = 30 metres.
What is the geometric figure of shadow of a flagpole?
pyramid
If the angle of elevation of the sun is 53 degrees when a flagpole casts a shadow of 12 m then the height of the flagpole is?
The flagpole is 15.92 metres, approx.
A meter stick cast a shadow 1.4m long at the same time a flagpole casts a shadow 7.7m long the triangle formed by the meterstick and its shadow is similar.how tall is the flagpole?
84 feet tall
A flagpole casts a shadow 102 feet long a 6ft talk man casts a shadow 17ft long How tall is the flagpole?
It works out as: 42.353 feet tall rounded to 3 decimal places
When the shadow of a flagpole is 31.2m long a 1.6m fencepost casts a shadow 2.6m long how tall is the flagpole?
First, find the ratio of fencepost-height : shadow which is 1.6 : 2.6 . This can also be written as a fraction, 1.6/2.6 . Then, multiply the flagpole's shadow by this ratio: 31.2 x 1.6/2.6 = 19.2 The flagpole is 19.2m high. The trigonometry way: On the imaginary right angled triangle formed by the fencepost and its shadow, let the angle at which the hypotenuse meets the ground = θ sinθ = 1.6/2.6 sinθ = /31.2 x/31.2 = 1.6/2.6 2.6x = 31.2 * 1.6 = 49.92 x = 19.2 The flagpole is 19.2m high.
When will an upright flagpole cast no shadow?
When the light source is directly over it or at night.
How does the shadow of a flagpole changes throughout the day?
The positioning of the sun throughout the day.
