Question

4. The triangles below lie on the same line. Find thehorizontal distance of the smaller triangle.25DA10Distance:pe here to searchN

Answer 1

`\begin{gathered} \text{ By Tales' theorem, we know that} \\ (10)/(25)=(x)/(5)\text{, now since the 5 is dividing, we pass it to multiply at the other side} \\ (10\cdot5)/(25)=x \\ x=(50)/(25) \\ x=2 \end{gathered}`

Thus the horizontal distance of the smaller triangle is 2.