A tree broken at a height of 5 cm from the ground and it's top touches the ground at a distance of 12 m from base of the tree find the original height of the tree

The original height of tree is 18 m.

Step-by-step explanation:

Consider the correct question is "A tree is broken at the height of 5m from the ground and its top touches the ground at a distance of 12m from the Base of the tree. Find the original height of the tree."

A tree is broken at the height of 5m from the ground.

Let the height of the tree is (x+5) m.

After broken, it will form a right angle triangle with hypotenuse x, base 12m and perpendicular 5 m.

Using Pythagoras theorem,

Taking square root on both sides.

Height of tree =

Hence, the height of tree is 18 m.

18 cm.

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Let ABC be the height of tree and tree is broken at point B such that top A touches the ground.

Now, we will use Pythagoras theorem to solve for length AB as AB is hypotenuse of right triangle.

Now, we will take positive square root of both sides as:

The total length of the tree would be .

Therefore, the original height of the tree was 18 cm.

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