Answered: Lena is 5 feet tall and is standing…

Lena is 5 feet tall and is standing next to a 24-foot flag pole. How long is the flag poles shadow if the flag pole's shadow is 15 feet longer than Lena's? Flag Poles Shadow =

Algebra: Structure And Method, Book 1

(REV)00th Edition

ISBN:9780395977224

Author:Richard G. Brown, Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, William L. Cole

Publisher:Richard G. Brown, Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, William L. Cole

Chapter1: Introduction To Algebra

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 10CT

See similar textbooks

Related questions

Q: Charlotte has a piece of string that is 14 feet long. She cuts it into pieces that are each foot…

A: given charlotte has piece of string of length 14 feet long string is cut into pieces of 13foot…

Q: 6 feet tall Paula is wallking away from a lamppost that is 22 feet tall. What is the length of her…

A: Solution:

Q: A skyscraper is 807 feet tall. Each floor is about 12 feet tall. About how many floors does the…

Q: The length of a rectangle is 5 times the width. If the perimeter is to be less than 96 meters. What…

Q: The longest side of a right triangle is 4 less than 3 times the shortest side. The third side…

A: Let shortest side= x inchesSo longest side= (3x-4) inchesThird side is 4 inches

Q: The product of two consecutive numbers is 1260. Find the numbers.

A: Consider the given statement: The product of two consecutive positive integer is 1260.

Q: Yu has a part of an hour for his workout. He would like to do a different exercise each hour. How…

A: “Since you have asked multiple questions, we will solve the first question for you. If you want any…

Q: If you take 4500 steps in a day and each of your steps is 2.5 feet. How many miles have you walked?

A: Given, If we take 4500 steps in a day and each of your steps is 2.5 feet.

Q: Matt is 58 years younger than Carrie. 8 years ago, Carrie's age was 3 times Matt's age. How old is…

A: Let Matt is x years old now. and Carrie is y years old now

Q: A city has an elevation of -17 meters is closer to sea level than a city that has an elevation of…

Q: In a standard television set, the screen height is 0.75 times the screen width. If a television set…

A: Solution → Let screen height br h"and screen width be W"So , h = 0.75 Wh = 75100W = 34W

Q: One hose can fill a small swimming pool in 60 minutes. A larger hose can fill the pool in 40…

A: To Determine: One hose can fill a small swimming pool in 60 minutes. A larger hose can fill the pool…

Q: A boat traveled 84 kilometers each way downstream and back. The trip downstream took 4 hours. The…

Q: The product of two consecutive numbers is 506. Find the numbers.

A: Since you have asked multiple question, we will solve the first question for you. If you want any…

Q: One-fourth equals the quotients of a number and 20. Find the number. The unknown number is ?

Q: Jim is 3 times as old as his cousin and the difference in their ages is 18. How old is Jim?

Q: Jaylen's living room is rectangular and measures 6 meters by 8 meters. Beginning in one corner,…

A: Draw the diagram as said in the question and add all the path length that he walked.

Q: A wire that is 75ft long is cut into 3 pieces. One piece is 2 feet longer than the shortest piece,…

Q: Mando is 6 feet tall and has a shadow 2.25 feet long. How tall is Baby Yoda if his shadow is 6…

A: Apply properties of similar of triangle

Q: 18 inch laptop has a screen that is 7 inches tall how wide is the screen

Q: a scooter is going 3/4 of a mile every 4 minutes. how far does the scooter go in the following…

A: To find the distance covered in 17 and 12 minutes.

Q: Pierce dug a hole 213 feet deep. He needs to have the hole 3 times that deep. How deep will the hole…

Q: Clay can run one lap around the track in a of an hour. How many hours will it take him to run 5 laps…

A: Time taken to run one lap = 1/4 hour

Q: Kit is twice as old as his friend Sam. Sam is 5 years older than Cara. In 5 years, Kit will be…

A: Form the equation using a variable and solve it.

Q: The rim of a basketball hoop is 10 feet high. When Chase stretches his hand, it is 88 inches high.…

Q: The sum of two consecutive odd integers is 112. Find the integers.

Q: a Xiu Jin bought a table and 6 similar chairs. A table cost 3 times as much as a chair. the cashier…

Q: Kim is 10 years older than Laura. Laura is twice as old as Melissa. If Melissa will be 10 years old…

Q: Mario is 6 feet tall and is standing next to a 30-foot building. How long is Mario's shadow if the…

A: We draw the images for given situations Here the shadow made by Mario is x feet, and the shadow…

Q: Find four consecutive integers that the sum of the second and fourth is 132.

Q: Gabriel is 46 years younger than krystal. 5 years ago, krystal's age was 3 times gabriel's age. How…

A: This is problem-related to age. Here we will assume the present age of both and then based on that…

Q: A model of an airplane is created, where 2 inches is equal to 17 feet. The actual airplane is 176…

A: The surface area of two similar figures are 1377 sq. ft and 68 sq. ft. If the volume of the larger…

Q: Choi can walk 125 m in 72 seconds. Standing on a moving sidewalk at an airport, she can travel 125…

A: Speed of Choi = 125m/72sec = 1.736 m/s Speed of the moving sidewalk = 125m/40sec = 3.125 m/s

Q: Ella is 120 cm tall. Emma's height is 40 cm less than twice Ella's height. How tall is Emma?

A: It is given that, Ella is 120cm tall. So, let the height of Ella is, is denoted by h1 and…

Q: A construction crew is lengthening a road that originally measured 14 miles. The crew is adding one…

A: Let 'd' denote the number of days and L(d) be the length of the road in miles. It is given that the…

Q: Solve for the variables. 40 60° [ Select ] [ Select ] [ Select ]

A: Note:- Two angles are called supplementary if their measures add to 180 degrees.

Q: Link can ride his bike 20 miles into a 3 mph headwind in the same amount of time he can ride 30…

A: Link can ride his bike 20 miles into a 3 mph headwind in the same amount of time he can ride 30…

Q: The consecutive pages have a product that is 72. What are the page numbers?

A: We have to determine the consecutive product of page numbers

Q: The product of two consecutive numbers is 380. Find the numbers.

A: Given: Product of two consecutive numbers is 380 let first number be "x" As two…

Q: In a standard television set, the screen height is 0.75 times the screen width. If a television set…

A: We are given. The height of the television screen is 0.75 times the screen width.The diagonal is 32…

Q: Nate walks 25 meters in 13.7 seconds. If he walks at this same rate, what is the distance he will…

Q: a bird flies from the bottom of a canyon that is 53 and 7/10 feet below sea level to a nest that is…

Q: The length of a rectangular sign is 3 feet longer than the width. If the sign's area is 54 square…

A: From the given statement, the length is 3 feet longer than the width and area of the rectangle is 54…

Q: the perimeter of a small rectangular garden is 14 feet. if the length is four times the width, find…

Q: Nathan drives 16 miles per hour slower than penelope. They started at the same spot, and drove in…

A: Let the speed of Nathan be x. Then the speed of Penelope is 16 + x. Distance travelled by both in…

Q: Find three consecutive integers whose sum is 33.

Q: The product of two consecutive even numbers is 624. Find the numbers.

Q: One hose can fill a goldfish pond in 42 minutes, and two hoses can fill the same pond in 30 minutes.…

Q: The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 93. Find the integers.

A: Let three consecutive integers are x,x+2 and x+4.

Q: Maria has a 45- minute lunch break. During the break, she will walk 5 minutes to another floor, say…

A: Maria has a 45- minute lunch break. During the break, she will walk 5 minutes to another floor, say…

Concept explainers

Polynomials

Try substituting 1. You will get 6 and not 0. Try other real values also. What About -2? Let us check.

Question

Lena is 5 feet tall and is standing next to a 24-foot flag pole. How long is the flag poles
shadow if the flag pole's shadow is 15 feet longer than Lena's?
Flag Poles Shadow =

Expert Solution

This question has been solved!

Explore an expertly crafted, step-by-step solution for a thorough understanding of key concepts.

This is a popular solution!

SEE SOLUTION Check out a sample Q&A here

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Step 4

Trending now

This is a popular solution!

Step by step

Solved in 4 steps with 1 images

SEE SOLUTION Check out a sample Q&A here

Knowledge Booster

$Polynomial$

Learn more about

Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, geometry and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.

Similar questions

The width of a rectangle is 21 meters. The area is 609 square meters. What is the length?
Link can ride his bike 20 miles into a 3 mph headwind in the same amount of time he can ride 30 miles with a 3 mph tailwind. What is Link’s biking speed?
The product of two consecutive integers is 420. Find the integers.
Find the base and height of a triangle whose base is four inches more than six times height and hasan area of 456 square inches.
The numerical difference between the area of a square and the perimeter of that square is 32. Find the length of a side of the square.
Cara and Cindy, working together, can rake the yard in 4 hours. Working alone, it takes Cindy 6 hours to rake the yard. How long would it take Cara to rake the yard alone?