A birdhouse and the poor that is on

Barbara Garcia

Barbara Garcia

Answered question

2022-09-08

A birdhouse and the poor that is on cast a shadow 15 feet long if a person standing nearby cast a shadow 5 feet long and the person is 4 feet tall how tall are the birdhouse and the pole

Answer & Explanation

RizerMix

RizerMix

Expert2023-06-06Added 656 answers

To solve the problem, let's denote the height of the birdhouse as hbirdhouse and the height of the pole as hpole.
Given that a person standing nearby casts a shadow 5 feet long and the person's height is 4 feet, we can set up a proportion to relate the person's height and their shadow length:
hpersonshadow length of person=hbirdhouse+hpoleshadow length of birdhouse and pole
Substituting the given values, we have:
45=hbirdhouse+hpole15
To solve for the height of the birdhouse and the pole, we can rearrange the equation:
hbirdhouse+hpole=45×15
hbirdhouse+hpole=12
So we can conclude that their combined height is 12 feet.

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