Question

Nicole is 1.55 meters tall. At 2 p.m., she measures the length of a tree's shadow to be 30.05 meters. She stands 25.6 meters away from the tree, so that the tip of her shadow meets the tip of the tree's shadow. Find the height of the tree to the nearest hundredth of a meter.​

Answer 1

approximately 1.81 meters.
Explanation:
Let's call the height of the tree "h". We can set up a proportion based on the similar triangles formed by Nicole, her shadow, the tree, and the tree's shadow:
(height of Nicole) / (length of Nicole's shadow) = (height of tree) / (length of tree's shadow)
Substituting the given values, we get:
1.55 / 25.6 = h / 30.05
Simplifying and solving for h, we get:
h = (1.55 / 25.6) * 30.05
= 1.81181640625
Rounding to the nearest hundredth, we get:
h ≈ 1.81 meters
the height of the tree is approximately 1.81 meters.