A 21-meter-tall tree near a building casts a shadow that is 24 meters long. The building casts a shadow that is 56 meters long. What is the height of the building?
An image shows a house and a tree.
The image shows the building with a vertical height labeled h and a horizontal segment representing the shadow of length 56 meters. A dashed line is drawn from the top of the building to the end of the shadow segment to create a right triangle.
Inside the house and shadow right triangle there is another right triangle formed by the tree and a segment representing its shadow. The height of the tree is labeled 21 meters and the shadow segment is labeled 24 meters.
A. 30 m
B. 64 m
C. 49 m?
D. 72 m
Good grief!!
How can the bot miss this trivial and simple ratio problem
actual solution:
x/56 = 21/24
x = 49