Question

A humming bird lives in a nest that is 30 feet high in a tree. The humming bird flies 34 feet to get from its nest to a flower on the ground. How far is the flower on the ground from the base of the tree.

Answer 1

Assuming the tree is perfectly vertical, Pythagorous theorum can be used with its flight path as the hypotenuse and the tree as the vertical.

`{a}^(2) + {30}^(2) = {34}^(2)`
a=16 feet