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Carla looks from a height of 15 yards at the top of her apartment building. She lines up the top of a flagpole with the curb of a street 20 yards away. If the flagpole is
12 yards from the apartment building, how tall is the flagpole?

Carla looks from a height of 15 yards at the top of her apartment building She lines up the top of a flagpole with the curb of a street 20 yards away If the fl class=

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Answer is 9 ft. Hope it helps

The height of the flagpole is: 6 yards

What is similarity?

Similar triangles are triangles that have the same shape, but their sizes may vary. All equilateral triangles, squares of any side lengths are examples of similar objects.

From diagram,

ΔBDE ~ ΔBCA

So, BD/BC= DE/AC

8/20= DE/15

DE= 6 yards.

Hence, the height of the flagpole is 6 yards.

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