Question

As a youngster, you drive a nail in the trunk of a young tree that is 3 meters tall. The nail is about 1.5 meters from the ground. Fifteen years later, you return and discover that the tree has grown to a height of 30 meters. About how many meters above the ground is the nail?

Answer 1

Answer:

15m

Explanation:

Hello! first to solve this problem we must find that so much that the tree grew in the 15 years this is achieved by dividing the height of the tree before and after

$\frac{30m}{3m} =10 times$

the tree grew 10 times its initial length in 15 years, so to find how tall the nail is, we multiply this factor by 1.5m

X=(1.5m)(10)=15m

the nail is 15 meters above ground level