Math Project: Pythagorean Theorem

pythagorean-theorem

Weston the Robot wants to know how far away from him his shadow is so that he knows what time it is. If he is 6 feet tall and his shadow is 10 feet long, how far how far away is his real head from his shadow head?
2 2 2
A + B = C
2 2 2
6 + 10 = C
2
36 + 100 = C
2
136 = C
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√136 = C

C= 11.661 feet

We came up with the shadow idea because Weston was just brainstorming and then he thought of a shadow, so we thought of how it could do with a right triangle. Our result was 11.661 feet and it makes sense because we used the Pythagorean Theorem.