19. a silver statue of pooja is leaning against a wall. the top of her head
touches the wall at 40 feet. if the base of the statue is 9 feet away from the
wall, how tall is pooja’s statue, in feet?

Step-by-step explanation:

You need to draw a right triangle.

Observe the right triangle attached, where "x" is the height in feet of Pooja’s statue.

You need to use the Pythagorean Theorem. This is:

Where "a" is the hypotenuse and "b" and "c" are the legs of the right triangle.

In this case you can identify that:

Therefore, you can substitute values into :

Finally, you must solve for "x" in order to find its value.

You get that this is: