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# You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look u

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You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look up at the top of the tree. Approximately how far is your hear from the top of the tree in a straight line?

A. 50 feet
B. 75 feet
C. 120 feet
D. 130 feet
E. 150 feet

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27 Jul 2019, 23:22
√(120^2+50^2) = 130

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28 Jul 2019, 01:17
You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look up at the top of the tree. Approximately how far is your hear from the top of the tree in a straight line?

A. 50 feet
B. 75 feet
C. 120 feet
D. 130 feet
E. 150 feet

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You are lying 120 ft away from a tree = Base of a Right Angled triangle
a tree that is 50 feet tall = Height of a right Angled triangle....

Ignore the 0's in 120 & 50 , and recall the pythagorean triples, the hypotenuse will be 13 or 130 as the pythegorean triple is ( 5 , 12 , 13) Answer must be (D)
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28 Jul 2019, 06:40
We don’t know height of a person. How can it work.?

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28 Jul 2019, 08:07
You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look up at the top of the tree. Approximately how far is your hear from the top of the tree in a straight line?

A. 50 feet
B. 75 feet
C. 120 feet
D. 130 feet
E. 150 feet

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How far is war from top of the tree in straight line = sqrt(50^2+120^2) = 130

IMO D

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02 Aug 2019, 07:44
You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look up at the top of the tree. Approximately how far is your hear from the top of the tree in a straight line?

A. 50 feet
B. 75 feet
C. 120 feet
D. 130 feet
E. 150 feet

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Can you please clarify what do you mean by "....how far is your hear from the top of the tree". Did you mean " hair"?
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02 Aug 2019, 07:59
Hello stne

You are overthinking on this question, this is very easy 500 level Geometry question. Don't get confused by wording see below image.

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A.jpg [ 23.38 KiB | Viewed 170 times ]

Use pythagoras theorem formula

$$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$$

or simply its a pythagoras triplets

3,4,5
5,12,13

Hope it helps

stne wrote:
You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look up at the top of the tree. Approximately how far is your hear from the top of the tree in a straight line?

A. 50 feet
B. 75 feet
C. 120 feet
D. 130 feet
E. 150 feet

TPR

Can you please clarify what do you mean by "....how far is your hear from the top of the tree". Did you mean " hair"?

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02 Aug 2019, 09:04
Hello stne

You are overthinking on this question, this is very easy 500 level Geometry question. Don't get confused by wording see below image.

Attachment:
A.jpg

Use pythagoras theorem formula

$$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$$

or simply its a pythagoras triplets

3,4,5
5,12,13

Hope it helps

stne wrote:
You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look up at the top of the tree. Approximately how far is your hear from the top of the tree in a straight line?

A. 50 feet
B. 75 feet
C. 120 feet
D. 130 feet
E. 150 feet

TPR

Can you please clarify what do you mean by "....how far is your hear from the top of the tree". Did you mean " hair"?

I did not mean to offend you in any manner. It is not only about getting questions correct but also about posting quality questions without any error. I wanted to point out that the word " hear" seems out of place and does not make sense in the context.
Can you point out what " hear " means in this question? Perhaps I am missing something ?
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Re: You are lying 120 ft away from a tree that is 50 feet tall. You look u   [#permalink] 02 Aug 2019, 09:04
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