A kite flying in the air has a 12ft line attached to it. It's line is pulled taut and casts an 8ft shadow. Find the height of the kite. If necessary round to the nearest tenth

The height of the kite is 8.9 feet.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have drawn diagram for your reference.

Given:

Distance of kite from the line = 12 ft.

According to diagram;

AC = 12 ft

Distance of the shadow of the line taut = 8 ft

According to diagram;

BC = 8 ft

We need to find the height of the kite AB.

Solution:

Let us consider the scenario to be a right angled triangle with right angle at B.

So we will use Pythagoras theorem.

"In a right angle triangle square of sum of 2 sides is equal to square of the third side."

framing in equation form we get;

Substituting the given values we get;

Taking Square root on both side we get;

rounding to nearest tenth we get;

Hence The height of the kite is 8.9 feet.

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