If a boy 5 feet tall casts a shadow 14 feet long, what will be the length of the shadow of a tree that is 25 feet high?

70 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

This problem can be answered by using proportions based on similar triangles.

Notice that a person and its shadow on the ground form a right angle (therefore they can be considered the two "legs" of a right angle triangle)

The same runs for the tree and its shadow.

Since the inclination of the rays of the sun are the same at the same time for both objects (the boy and the tree), their hypothenuses form the same angles with the ground and therefore belong to similar triangles.

We can create the following proportion to solve for the shadow of the tree (ST) using the information provided: the height of the boy (HB), the shadow of the boy (SB), and the height of the tree (HT)

0 and 5 minutes

step-by-step explanation:

given that one morning eight buses arrive late by the number of minutes given below:

0 8 2 6 9 2 0 7 8

write these in ascending order

0   0 2 6 7 8 8 9

in the afternoon two more buses arrive at the bus stop say by x and y minutes late.

total number of buses = 10

median = average of 4th and 5th after arranging in ascending order

since 4th entry is 6, the values of x and y should be below 6

also given 0 is the mode so either x or y or both should be 0 because then only 0 gets the maximum frequency and hence mode

thus we have

0 0 0 2 6 7 8 8 9 and another unknown entry which is below 6.

since median is 3.5, we have the unknown entry to be 5 only because then only median =( 2+5)/2

thus the after noon buses were late by 0 and 5 minutes.

the answer is about 24 dollars