Iam about to fail. a 15-foot pole is leaning against a tree. the bottom of the pole is 9 feet away from the bottom of the tree. approximately how high up the tree does the top of the pole reach? 6 feet 9 feet 12 feet 14 feet

The tree, pole and the ground form a right triangle, right-angled at the junction of the tree and the ground.
The pole forms a hypotenuse, length 15 ft.
Ground is a leg, 9 ft.
We can use Pythagoras theorem to find the height of the tree, namely



ft.

The height of the tree is 12 feet.

X=3 and y=4 is the answer