Question

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

Answer 1

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Answer 2

16 cm approximately

Explanation:

We are given that a telephone pole cast shadow that is 34 m long .We are given that a statue that is 36 cm long and shadow of statue is 77 cm long.

We have to find the length of telephone pole

Let height of pole

Using direct proportion

`(x)/(34)=(36)/(77)`

By multiply property of equality then we get

`x=(36)/(77)* 34`

x=
`(1224)/(77)`

x=15.896 cm

Hence, the height of telephone pole=15.896 cm=16 cm approximately