A telephone pole casts a shadow that is 34 m long. find the height of the telephone pole if a statue that is 36cm tall casts a shadow 77cm long

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Landon Salinas

Mathematics

6 September, 10:35

A telephone pole casts a shadow that is 34 m long. find the height of the telephone pole if a statue that is 36cm tall casts a shadow 77cm long

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Harold · Answer 1

This is the concept of proportionality, the length of the pole will be given by:

[length of the post]/[length of the shadow]=[length of the statue]/[length of the shadow of statue]

thus;

suppose the length of the pole is x m

thus;

x/34=36/77

x=36/77*34

x=15.8 m

the answer is 15.9 m