I need help on the following problem: A telephone pole is 15 feet away form a street light which is 20 feet above the ground. A squirrel runs up the telephone ple at 8 feet/second. How fast is the squirrel's shadow traveling along the (level) ground when the squirrel is 18 feet above the ground?
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First draw a sketch of the situation.wgaines said:I need help on the following problem: A telephone pole is 15 feet away form a street light which is 20 feet above the ground. A squirrel runs up the telephone ple at 8 feet/second. How fast is the squirrel's shadow traveling along the (level) ground when the squirrel is 18 feet above the ground?
What do you need to find?
Name that variable.
Find the speed of squirrel's shadow along the ground....
Let
the speed of squirrel's shadow along the ground = Q
Now continue....
Please share your work with us, indicating exactly where you are stuck - so that we may know where to begin to help you.
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wgaines said:stuck from the very start
I gave you a start - what/where did you go from there?