What is the height of the tree?
Its a right angle triangle but its laying on its left side. The right side is 52 ft. the left side is 38 ft. The tree is standing as tall as the bottom.
A. 64.4 ft.
B. 35.5 ft.
C. 37.4 ft.
D. 90 ft.
Is the answer A?
Thanks
If it's wanting you to use the equation: "a^2 + b^2 = c^2", I would think A to be correct. So, I agree with you that A is correct.
I hope this helps! :)
Thank you Brady :)
You're welcome Anonymous. :)
To find the height of the tree, you can use the Pythagorean theorem, which states that in a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
In this case, the right side of the triangle is given as 52 ft, and the left side is given as 38 ft. So, we are trying to find the length of the hypotenuse, which represents the height of the tree.
Using the Pythagorean theorem, we can calculate the length of the hypotenuse as follows:
hypotenuse^2 = 52^2 + 38^2
hypotenuse^2 = 2704 + 1444
hypotenuse^2 = 4148
To find the height (hypotenuse), we need to take the square root of 4148:
hypotenuse = √4148
hypotenuse ≈ 64.4 ft
Therefore, the correct answer is A. 64.4 ft.