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  • 14-06-2018
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The length of a shadow of a building is 28m. The distance from the top of the building to the shadow is 38m. Find the height of the building

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  • 27-06-2018
It appears that the Pythagorean theorem can be applied to this problem
  (distance to shadow)² = (height of building)² + (length of shadow)²
  (38 m)² = (height of building)² + (28 m)²
  660 m² = (height of building)²
Then the height of the building is
  height of building = √660 m ≈ 25.7 m
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