Pre-Calc/Trig Unit 1: Trig Functions/2.4 Solving Right Triangles
Find length of shadow (Pythagorean Theorem)
On a sunny day, a tree and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 35 meters long and the tree is #a meters tall, how long is the shadow? Round to the nearest meter.]]>
1.0000000
0.3333333
0
0
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