Case Study Questions:
Question 1:
Vijay is trying to find the average height of a tower near his house. He is using the properties of similar triangles. The height of Vijay’s house if 20 m when Vijay’s house casts a shadow 10 m long on the ground. At the same time, the tower casts a shadow 50m long on the ground and the house of Ajay casts 20 m shadow on the ground.
(i) What is the height of the tower?
(a) 20 m
(b) 50 m
(c) 100 m
(d) 200 m
(ii) What will be the length of the shadow of the tower when Vijay’s house casts a shadow of 12m?
(a) 75 m
(b) 50 m
(c) 45 m
(d) 60 m
(iii) What is the height of Ajay’s house?
(a) 30 m
(b) 40 m
(c) 50 m
(d) 20 m
(iv) When the tower casts a shadow of 40m, same time what will be the length of the shadow of Ajay’s house?
(a) 16 m
(b) 32 m
(c) 20 m
(d) 8 m
(v) When the tower casts a shadow of 40m, same time what will be the length of the shadow of Vijay’s house?
(a) 15 m
(b) 32 m
(c) 16 m
(d) 8 m
Answer
Answer:(i) c
(ii) d
(iii) b
(iv) a
(v) d
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Chapter 4 Quadratic Equations
Chapter 5 Arithmetic Progressions
Chapter 6 Triangles
Chapter 7 Coordinate Geometry
Chapter 8 Introduction to Trigonometry
Chapter 9 Some Applications of Trigonometry
Chapter 10 Circles
Chapter 11 Constructions
Chapter 12 Areas Related to Circles
Chapter 13 Surface Areas and Volumes
Chapter 14 Statistics
Chapter 15 Probability
