For a project in her Geometry class, Chloe uses a mirror on the ground to measure the height of her school's football goalpost. She walks a distance of 10.65 meters fror the goalpost, then places a mirror on flat on the ground, marked with an X at the center. She then steps 1.2 meters to the other side of the mirror, until she can see the top of the goalpost clearly marked in the X. Her partner measures the distance from her eyes to the ground to be 1.75 meters. How tall is the goalpost? Round your answe to the nearest hundredth of a meter. 1.75 m 1.2 m 10.65 m

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For a project in her Geometry class, Chloe uses a mirror on the ground to measure
the height of her school's football goalpost. She walks a distance of 10.65 meters from
the goalpost, then places a mirror on flat on the ground, marked with an X at the
center. She then steps 1.2 meters to the other side of the mirror, until she can see the
top of the goalpost clearly marked in the X. Her partner measures the distance from
to the ground to be 1.75 meters. How tall is the goalpost? Round your answer
her
eyes
to the nearest hundredth of a meter.
1.75 m
F1.2 m'
10.65 m
Transcribed Image Text:For a project in her Geometry class, Chloe uses a mirror on the ground to measure the height of her school's football goalpost. She walks a distance of 10.65 meters from the goalpost, then places a mirror on flat on the ground, marked with an X at the center. She then steps 1.2 meters to the other side of the mirror, until she can see the top of the goalpost clearly marked in the X. Her partner measures the distance from to the ground to be 1.75 meters. How tall is the goalpost? Round your answer her eyes to the nearest hundredth of a meter. 1.75 m F1.2 m' 10.65 m
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