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19. Use the information in the diagram to determine the height of the tree. The diagram is not to scale.

19. Use the information in the diagram to determine the height of the tree. The diagram-example-1
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Answer:

60 ft

Explanation:

19. The given height of the triangle is 120 ft.

To find the height of the tree, we will use Mid-segment Theorem since the tree is directly at the middle segment of the triangle from inspection.

Now, this theorem states that the segment that joins the two midpoints of the two sides of a triangle would definitely be parallel to the third side and equal to half of the length of this same third side.

The third side here is 120 ft.. Therefore the tree height = 120/2 = 60 ft

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