To find the height of a tree, a group of students devised the following method. A girl walks toward the tree along its shadow until the shadow of the top of her head coincides with the shadow of the top of the tree. If the girl is 150 cm tall, her distance to the foot of the tree is 49 m, and the length of her shadow is 3 m, how tall is the tree? 150 cm 3 m 49 m The tree is meters tall. (Type an integer or a decimal.)
To find the height of a tree, a group of students devised the following method. A girl walks toward the tree along its shadow until the shadow of the top of her head coincides with the shadow of the top of the tree. If the girl is 150 cm tall, her distance to the foot of the tree is 49 m, and the length of her shadow is 3 m, how tall is the tree? 150 cm 3 m 49 m The tree is meters tall. (Type an integer or a decimal.)
Elementary Geometry For College Students, 7e
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