Question

Lydia wants to find the height of a flagpole. She measures the height

of a tree and the length of the shadow it casts. The tree is 4 feet tall,
and its shadow is 8.8 feet long. Next, Lydia measures the shadow cast
by the flagpole, and finds it is 22 feet long. What is the height of the
flagpole?

Answer 1

10

Explanation:

Answer 2

draw a diagram.
the two are similar bc of AAsimilarity
so 8.8 is to 4 as 22 is to x
basically the answer is 10 ft tall