Question

The picture below shows a pole and its shadow:

A pole is shown with a right triangle side. The right triangle has hypotenuse 113 cm and base 15 cm.

What is the height of the pole?

112 centimeters
100 centimeters
98 centimeters
64 centimeters

Answer 1

The answer is 112 centimeters.

As this problem represents a right triangle, here we need to apply the Pythagorean Theorem.

• h = √113² - 15²
• h = √12769 - 225
• h = √12544
• h = 112 centimeters